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   Darkfield examination syphilis


  • Cell scrapings

  • Negative

  • Pipette method: a sterile pipette is used to aspirate cells and exudate from the base of the ulcer
  • Slide method: a sterile glass slide is pressed directly on the ulcerated lesion

  • To identify the Treponema pallidum spirochete, the cause of a Syphilis infection
  • It gives an early diagnosis before blood tests are reactive.


  • Contamination of the specimen
  • Drying of the specimen
  • Antibiotic therapy
  • Healed lesion

 





 


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