Test Overview
Nontreponemal flocculation procedure (RPR).
Syphilis monitoring for treatment
Nonreactive
* Reference ranges may change over time. Please refer to the original patient report when evaluating results.
Nonspecific positive reactions may be found in SLE, malaria, infectious mononucleosis, hepatitis, leprosy, brucellosis, atypical pneumonia, typhus, and other infections. Reactive tests due to related treponemal infections (bejel, pinta, or yaws) may also occur. A reactive result in a newborn may be due to passive transfer from mother's blood.
Test Details
8 hours
- Rapid Plasma Reagin
- Rapid Plasma Reagin, Serum
- RPR, Serum
- Serologic Test for Syphilis
- STS
- Syphilis Antibody Screen
- Syphilis Screening Test
- Treponema pallidum Antibody Screen, Serum
- VDRL Equivalent, Serum
- Rapid Plasma Reagin
- Serologic Test for Syphilis
- STS
- Syphilis Screening Test
- VDRL Equivalent, Serum
- RPR
- RPRQN
- RPR QUANT, SERUM
Specimen Requirements
Collect specimen in SST tube. Centrifuge, aliquot serum into plastic vial and refrigerate.
Contaminated, lipemic or grossly hemolyzed sera should not be used because of the possibility of nonspecific reactions.
Plasma, EDTA, heparin
Additional Information
Reactive specimens will be titered (RPRQN). The more specific TPPA will not be performed. In untreated syphilis, reactive sera are found in the chancre stage 30% after one week and 90% after three weeks. In the secondary stage, the RPR should be reactive 100% of the time, decreasing to 90% in the tertiary stage. In the latent stage and after successful treatment, the RPR may become nonreactive. The titer of antibody will vary from patient to patient There is no direct relationship between the amount of reagin and the severity of disease. A patient's peak titer will usually occur during the secondary stage, then decrease and plateau during later stages. By ordering this test the clinician acknowledges that additional reflex testing will be performed and billed at a separate additional charge if indicated.