False-Positive Hinton Reactions Following Chicken Pox

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THE evaluation of the specificity of the various tests for the serologic diagnosis of syphilis has gone through two phases. At one time both the complement-fixation and flocculation tests were considered to be so highly specific that some states accepted them as legal proof of a previous or existing syphilitic infection. During the last fifteen years there has been a re-evaluation of these tests and an increasing appreciation of the fact that certain nonsyphilitic conditions are capable of producing biologic false-positive reactions. Furthermore, the possibility of technical false-positive reactions has been repeatedly demonstrated by the interstate serologic surveys conducted by . . .

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