Welcome to your Case 10 – Question 3
3. Based on the clinical presentation, you suspect that the painless ulcer is likely due to primary syphilis, and you check off “syphilis serology” on the lab requisition. What specific tests are being run in the lab?
- Enzyme immune assay (EIA)
- Rapid plasma reagin (RPR)
- Treponema pallidum Particle Agglutination (TPPA)
- Gram stain, culture and drug susceptibility test
