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The different formulas on intrathecal secretion of IgG were evaluated in patients with active neurosyphillis (NS) who did not have HIV infection with the aim of knowing their usefulness and sensitivity in the follow up of response to treatment. Five HIV negative patients with defined criteria of

Thirty-six patients with reactive results in the cerebrospinal fluid to the Treponema pallidum haemagglutination assay (CSF-TPHA) were investigated by further serological tests for confirmation of active neurosyphilis. The results of the TPHA and fluorescent treponemal antibody tests were reactive

Concentrations of albumin and total IgG as well as TPHA-IgG antibody titres have been determined in pairs of serum and cerebrospinal fluid of 280 syphilitic patients with or without clinical symptoms of neurosyphilis. As the ratio of the TPHA-IgG titre per mg total IgG in cerebrospinal fluid and

Neurosyphilis (NS) caused by Treponema pallidum (T. pallidum) subspecies pallidum, can affect the central nervous system during any stage of the disease. To assess several laboratory parameters for NS diagnosis, we performed a case control study on 42 hospitalized NS patients negative for human

Our objective is to assess the specificity and sensitivity, and thus elaborate the relevance, of different laboratory findings for the diagnosis of neurosyphilis. One hundred and fourteen HIV-negative pairs of serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were examined by the Venereal Disease Research

Our objective is to assess the relevance of the different laboratory findings in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum for the diagnosis and survey of active neurosyphilis. A retrospective study of six hospitalized neurosyphilitic patients at Neurological Hospital of Lyon from 1987 to 2002 was carried

BACKGROUND Neurosyphilis might be difficult to diagnose particularly in asymptomatic patients and patients with HIV-coinfection. The objective of this study was to evaluate current diagnostic standards for neurosyphilis in HIV-positive and -negative patients. METHODS We studied retrospectively

Background: Our previous study in animal models revealed that bilirubin could induce Aβ formation and deposition. Bilirubin may be important in neurodegenerative dementia with Aβ deposition. Hence, lowering the concentration of the free

Lumbar puncture in neurologically asymptomatic HIV+ patients is still under debate. There are different criteria for detecting neurosyphilis through cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), especially in cases that are negative through the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL), regarding cellularity and

CSF/serum albumin and immunoglobulin G ratios were determined in 520 patients suffering from various neurological diseases. Blood-brain barrier impairment was detectable in most cases of spinal tumour, meningitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome and in two-thirds of the patients with cerebral infarctions. A

OBJECTIVE Examine prevalence and diagnostic utility of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) treponemal antibodies in early syphilis. METHODS Comparison study. METHODS Sexually transmitted diseases clinic. METHODS Forty patients with untreated early syphilis who underwent lumbar puncture. Fifteen were human

We quantified HIV-1 RNA levels (copies per milliliter) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum from subjects at various stages of HIV-1 disease and determined the relationship of RNA levels to clinical and neurologic disease status (HND) and to laboratory values. Ninety-seven HIV-1-seropositive men

BACKGROUND Laboratory detection of intrathecal synthesis of specific antitreponemal antibodies remains a challenge. Traditional syphilis serology is unable to provide a satisfactory result; therefore, several other diagnostic procedures were used to demonstrate central nervous system (CNS)

Diabetes mellitus (DM) and neurosyphilis (NS) may both damage the blood-brain barrier (BBB). It seems that non-neurosyphilis (non-NS) patients with high HbA_1c levels are likely to develop into NS. However, the correlation of HbA_1c level with BBB disruption in syphilis (non-NS)

The diagnosis of syphilis is dependent mainly on serological tests. In primary syphilis there is a seronegative period when the diagnosis is dependent on demonstration of Treponema pallidum in lesional exudate. The most widely used screening tests for syphilis are the VDRL and the rapid plasma