TABLE 5.
Distribution of HSV-1 and/or HSV-2 infections within the analysis of the results of dark-field microscopy versus those of the T. pallidum real-time PCR and the analysis of the clinical diagnosis by the STI clinic versus the results of the T. pallidum real-time PCRa
| T. pallidum real-time PCR result | No. of samples with positive HSV result/total no. of samples in the group (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark-field microscopy |
Clinical diagnosis of primary syphilis in STI clinic setting |
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| Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | |
| + | 1/47 (2) | 0/46 (0) | 1/83 (1) | 0/10 (0) |
| − | 3/7 (43) | 314/616 (51) | 11/31 (36) | 306/592 (52) |
a
The data are for a total of 716 cases.