Syphilis test availability and uptake at medical facilities in southern China
Li-Gang Yang, Joseph D Tucker, Cheng Wang, Song-Ying Shen, Xiang-Sheng Chen, Bin Yang & Rosanna Peeling
Volume 89, Number 11, November 2011, 798-805
Table 4. Syphilis testing methods available at various medical facilities where deliveries were attended in 2008, Guangdong province, China
| Variable | EIA only |
TRUST/RPR and TPPA |
TPPA only |
TRUST/RPR only |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||||
| Type of facility | |||||||||||
| General hospital | 2 | 15.4 | 0 | – | 1 | 7.7 | 10 | 76.9 | |||
| WCH | 1 | 7.1 | 1 | 7.1 | 0 | – | 12 | 85.7 | |||
| TCMH | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 4 | 100 | |||
| Hygiene station | 1 | 11.1 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 8 | 88.9 | |||
| Administrative | |||||||||||
| Municipal | 0 | – | 1 | 11.1 | 0 | – | 8 | 88.9 | |||
| County | 3 | 13.6 | 0 | – | 1 | 4.6 | 17 | 81.8 | |||
| Township | 1 | 11.1 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 4 | 88.9 | |||
| Region | |||||||||||
| West | 2 | 10.5 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 17 | 89.5 | |||
| East | 2 | 14.3 | 0 | – | 1 | 7.1 | 11 | 78.6 | |||
| North | 0 | – | 1 | 14.3 | 0 | – | 6 | 85.7 | |||
| Total | 4 | 10 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 2.5 | 29 | 85 | |||
EIA, enzyme immunoassay; RPR, rapid plasma reagin; TCMH, traditional Chinese medicine hospital; TPPA, Treponema pallidum particle agglutination; TRUST, toluidine red unheated serum test; WCH, women’s and children’s hospital.