Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1987; Volume 65, Number 4, Year 1987 65 (4), Pages 489-493: A Collaborative Study of an Experimental Kit for Rapid Rabies Enzyme Irnmunodiagnosis (RREID)

By P. Perr

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Title:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1987; Volume 65, Number 4, Year 1987 65 (4), Pages 489-493: A Collaborative Study of an Experimental Kit for Rapid Rabies Enzyme Irnmunodiagnosis (RREID)
Author:	P. Perr
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Excerpt
1.INTRODUCTION The Reiter treponeme has been used more or less continuously since the late 1920s in experimental and research work and as an antigen for serological tests for syphilis. Some groups of workers have maintained that this organism was originally a virulent treponeme and could cause syphilis, and others have maintained that the Reiter treponeme has always been a saprophytic organism. The available literature on the Reiter treponeme has been reviewed and compiled' in the present work to provide a source of information and references pertaining to its background, morphology, growth, use in serological tests for syphilis, and relation to other treponemes.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS page 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 . Historical background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 . Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 . Methods of reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5 . Metabolism and growth requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6 . Growth and division time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7 . Culture methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8 . Physical and biochemical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 9 . Effect of physical. chemical and biological agents . . . . . . . . . 17 10 . Antigenic components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 11 . Relation to other treponemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 12 . Related antibodies in syphilis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 13 . Miscellaneous extracts of the Reiter treponeme . . . . . . . . . . 28 14 . Whole treponeme suspensions as serological antigens . . . . . . . . 30 15 . Agglutination tests with Reiter treponeme . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 I6. Ultrasonic disintegrated treponemes as serological antigens . . . . . 36 17 . Reiter protein fraction as antigen: I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 18 . Reiter protein fraction as antigen: II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 19 . Reiter protein fraction as antigen: 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 20 . Reiter treponeme tests in malar~a. leprosy and other diseases . . . . 63 21 . Test-plan recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 22 . Miscellaneous testing procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 23 . Immunity studies with Reiter treponeme . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 24 . Experimental syphilis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 25 . Applications of Reiter treponeme investigations to antigens of pathogenic Treponenzo pallidurn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 26 . Risumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 27 . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85