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WORKING with Nichols's pathogenic strain in the treponemal immobilization test, it is a common experience1 that some sera constantly yield inconclusive results and, further, that from time to time a whole series of results must be discarded, because one or another of the controls shows poor survival of the treponemes.
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NIELSEN, H. Elimination of Inconclusive Results in the Treponemal Immobilization Test. Nature 171, 1030 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1711030b0
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