Recall of symptoms and treatment of syphilis and yaws by healthy blood donors screening positive for syphilis in Kumasi, Ghana

• Published in: International journal of infectious diseases Vol. 50; no. C; pp. 72 - 74
• Main Authors: Sarkodie, Francis, Owusu-Dabo, Ellis, Hassall, Oliver, Bates, Imelda, Bygbjerg, Ib C., Ullum, Henrik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2016; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Antibodies, Bacterial - blood; Blood donors; Blood Donors - statistics & numerical data; Epidemiological characteristics; Female; Ghana - epidemiology; Hospitals, Teaching; Humans; Infectious Disease; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary/Respiratory; Recall of symptoms; Sero-reactive; Syphilis; Syphilis - blood; Syphilis - diagnosis; Syphilis - epidemiology; Syphilis - microbiology; Treponema pallidum - genetics; Treponema pallidum - immunology; Treponema pallidum - isolation & purification; Yaws; Yaws - blood; Yaws - diagnosis; Yaws - epidemiology; Yaws - microbiology; Young Adult; Recall of symptoms; Epidemiological characteristics; Sero-reactive; Yaws; Syphilis; Blood donors

•A total of 478 syphilis seroreactive blood donors from Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana were confirmed with the Ortho-Vitros Syphilis TP test as the gold standard.•Of these, 471 consented syphilis seroreactive blood donors were interviewed to determine past or present clinical manifest...