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  • The usefulness of toluidine red unheated serum test in the diagnosis of HIV-negative neurosyphilis.

The usefulness of toluidine red unheated serum test in the diagnosis of HIV-negative neurosyphilis.

Sexually transmitted diseases (2010-09-28)
Ying Jiang, Xiaohong Chen, Xiaomeng Ma, Yu Yang, Fuhua Peng, Xueqiang Hu
PMID20871491
ABSTRACT

We retrospectively analyzed the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test, Treponema pallidum particle agglutination test, and toluidine red unheated serum test (TRUST) in 41 cases of HIV-negative neurosyphilis and 34 non-neurologic syphilitic patient and found that serum-TRUST titers could be the indication of lumbar puncture in syphilitic patients and a reactive cerebrospinal fluid-TRUST is considered diagnostic to neurosyphilis.