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Query:

Subject: Will one still test 'reactive' to VDRL long after having been treated?

Date: Wed Sep 10 23:53:18 1997
Posted by Edgar Javison
Grade level: teacher/prof
School: No school entered.
City: Iloilo City State/Province: No state entered.
Country: Philippines
Area of science: Microbiology
ID: 873953598.Mi
Message:
A VDRL test ten years after first testing "reactive" to VDRL and 
undergoing treatment of STD still showed a "reactive" result.  What 
explains this?  Does this mean that that person has not been cured?  
What is a VDRL, anyway?

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