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. 1958 Apr;88(4):297–299.

REITER PROTEIN COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST—A Preliminary Comparison of the TPI Test with the Complement Fixation Test Employing a Soluble Protein Antigen Derived from the Reiter Strain

James N Miller, Ruth A Boak, Charles M Carpenter
PMCID: PMC1512244  PMID: 13523398

Abstract

A comparative study of the specificity of the Reiter protein complement fixation (RPCF) test and the Treponema pallidum immobilization (TPI) test on 180 sera showed that the results in 178 instances or 98.9 per cent were in agreement.

The sensitivity of the RPCF test, when compared to the TPI test, on 189 sera from patients known to have syphilis was in agreement in 182 or 96.3 per cent, assuming a correlation exists between positive TPI and both the “reactive” or “weakly reactive” RPCF test results.

As to reproducibility of results, the RPCF test results agreed in 84 of the 87 sera tested (95.4 per cent). The sera were tested at least three times on different days.

Anticomplementary reactions were observed in three of 91 normal sera.

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