title: [Since Wassermann to VDRL in the ancient Bacteriological Institute of Chile].
abstract: The author remembers, sometimes in a very personal and colloquial way, the successive adoption by the ancient Bacteriological Institute of Chile of different nontreponemal tests for the serological diagnosis of syphilis: Wassermann, Kahn and VDRL. The outstanding figures of some agents of those changes, like Rudolf Kraus, Eduardo Dussert and Reuben Kahn, are recreated in the words of first hand eyewitness.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ledermann
mesh_terms: D002677:Chile; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013587:Syphilis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D013588:Syphilis Serodiagnosis / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods