%0 Journal Article %T Detec£¿£¿o de s¨ªfilis por ensaios de ELISA e VDRL em doadores de sangue do Hemon¨²cleo de Guarapuava, Estado do Paran¨¢ %A Oliveira %A Viviane Matoso de %A Verdasca %A Izabel Cristina %A Monteiro %A Marta Chagas %J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical %D 2008 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT %R 10.1590/S0037-86822008000400023 %X the aim of this study was to evaluate the syphilis seroprevalence among 5,752 blood donors who were attended at the blood center of guarapuava, state of paran¨¢, in 2006. the seropositivity rates were 2.1% for enzyme linked immuno sorbent assay and 0.2% for veneral disease research laboratory, thus showing low prevalence of syphilis among the individuals who came to this blood bank. %K syphilis %K treponema pallidum %K linked immuno sorbent assay %K veneral disease research laboratory %K blood donors. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86822008000400023&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en