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How Cardiolipin Helped Standardize Syphilis Serology

Cardiolipin helped make syphilis serology more reproducible by allowing laboratories to replace variable tissue extracts with defined mixtures of cardiolipin, lecithin and cholesterol. In a 1944 study, Ad Harris and J. P...

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