TY - JOUR
AB - EDITORIAL THE LABOKATORY AND THE SYPHILIS PROBLEM* A number of interesting developments have taken place in the laboratory diagnosis of syphilis since the beginning of the cam­ paign against this disease by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. The reports of the Committee on the evaluation of serologic tests have been made public and some of the general conclusions are that the better flocculation tests are as reliable as the complement fixation tests, that some physicians can perform a given test as well or better than the originators of the test, that some private laboratories do excellent work others, not so good, and tha t there are State Board Labora­ tories which do inferior work in regard to these tests for syphilis. Stimulated perhaps by these activities, serologists have brought forward a bevy of new tests, at least so-called new tests which for the most part are but slight modifications of previously reported tests, all claiming to be simplifications of some previous procedure. By inference or direct statement they imply that anyone from a janitor to a pathologist may perform the test— "an office test" is the general slogan. Now none of this would be 
TI - The Laboratory and the Syphilis Problem
JF - American Journal of Clinical Pathology
DO - 10.1093/ajcp/8.1.105
DA - 1938-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-laboratory-and-the-syphilis-problem-CgCF2xyXOY
SP - 105
EP - 108
VL - 8
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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