TY - JOUR T1 - From testing to screening for STIs JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 75 LP - 75 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2016-053001 VL - 93 IS - 1 AU - Nicola Low Y1 - 2017/02/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/93/1/75.abstract N2 - Venereology is a pioneer medical specialty in both diagnostic testing and screening. Wassermann developed a non-treponemal serological test to diagnose syphilis in 1906 and Ehrlich discovered Salvarsan in 1907. Syphilis thus became the first disease for which screening to detect asymptomatic infection was beneficial because both a reliable test and treatment were available.1 ‘Routine’ testing for syphilis in all pregnant women was recommended in the British Journal of Venereal Diseases in … ER -