Study of seroprevalence of syphilis from the patients attending tertiary care centre Saurastra region, Gujarat, India
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Microbiology - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
Objectives: Main objective of our study is to be detect cases of syphilis from patients attending tertiary care teaching hospital, Saurastra region, Gujarat, India by Standard test for syphilis named Rapid Plasma Reagin Test (RPR). To detect syphilis cases we were used RPR tests for screening antenatal women in a tertiary care hospital from March 2018 till February 2019. Methods: A total of 10485 samples received from various patient groups including prenatal Cases were screened for syphilis by rapid test by RPR based passive agglutination test. All RPR positive sample were confirmed by the TPHA test. Also all positive RPR sample were tested for HIV at the ICTC center. Results: Among the 10485samples collected, 3 were positive by RPR test. Among 3 positive by RPR test were confirmed by Treponema pallidum hemagglutination Assay(TPHA). The cumulative Seroprevalence over one year was found to be 0.028% in pregnant women attending antenatal clinic. Not a single case showed the co infection of HIV and syphilis. Conclusions: The Seroprevalence of syphilis among pregnant women in this hospital in Saurastra region was considerably Lower. Co infection of syphilis and HIV is still not noted in this region. More extensive studies are needed for correlation of HIV and syphilis.
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Hitesh R Ahir, Parul C Patel
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