| 词汇 | wasserman test |
| 词源 | Wasserman test. Many medical tests, including the Pap test for cancer and the Schick test for diphtheria, are named for the physicians who devised them. The Wasserman test was invented in 1906 by August von Wasserman (1866–1925), a German physician and bacteriologist. This laboratory blood test for the diagnosis of syphilis, also known as the cardiolipin test, has been perfected to the point where it is 99 percent effective on normal persons. The test is based on the presence of antibodies in the blood. In most cases a positive Wasserman reveals that the patient has syphilis, although vaccination procedures and several diseases, such as leprosy, also produce a positive Wasser- man. August von Wasserman, who began his career as a physi- cian in Strasbourg, won international fame for his discovery. He became director of Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1913. |
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