An improved method for recovering clinical isolates and assessing pathogenicity of blood from secondary syphilis patients
This study shows that the pathogenicity of secondary syphilis blood is greater than previously recognized. Thus, monitoring Tp particle agglutination titers enables the recovery of Tp clinical isolates, even from specimens with extremely low bacterial burdens.
Authors
- Litian Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1959-9845)
- Yinbo Jiang
- zhili Hu
- Heping Zheng
- Liyan Xi
- Xiaohui Zhang
- Ligang Yang
- Bin Yang
Institutions
- Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province (CN)
- Southern Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sexual Health
- Published
- 2026-01-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1071/sh25185
- Primary Topic
- Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00