[Validity of syphilis serodiagnosis in its prevention in apparently healthy workers applying for health certificates according to Law No. 837 of 25 July 1956].

The law 837/1956 establishes the right to subject the applicants for a certificate of health to serological tests for syphilis. Two Ministerial decrees establish that the first laboratory should carry out these tests using a fast test (VDRL) and should use the Complement fixation test as a control. This criterion of research does not correspond to the aims of the law.