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USE OF QUANTITATIVE WASSERMANN TESTS

AMOS U. CHRISTIE, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1938;55(5):979-989.

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In order that treatment of congenital syphilis may be begun at the earliest possible moment, an accurate method of diagnosis in the first few months of life—the so-called period of doubt—is of great importance. Faber and Black¹ have done much to clarify the significance of a positive Wassermann reaction of the blood in this period. According to these authors, the use of a quantitative rather than a qualitative technic for testing the blood of infants of syphilitic mothers offers a means of early differentiation between infants who have been infected with syphilis and those who have not. This idea was set forth by Faber and Black as follows:

Our hypothesis in using the quantitative method was that with an initially positive reaction to a routine Wassermann test in an infant at or near the time of birth successive quantitative tests might reveal a progressive decline in titer to zero . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Pediatric and Obstetric Departments of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor, Washington, D. C.

Footnotes
Read before the Society for Pediatric Research, Atlantic City, N. J., May 4, 1937.

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