Institut National d'Hygiène, Rabat, Morocco.
Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis. 2012;4(1):e2012049. doi: 10.4084/MJHID.2012.049. Epub 2012 Aug 9.
Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem and the rapid diagnosis and appropriate chemotherapy become the first priority and a serious challenge to improve TB treatment. In the objective of early TB diagnosis and rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in the clinical specimens, the utility of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) using the Insertion Sequence 6110 "IS6110" as target was compared to conventional methods.
Out of 305 patients with different clinical manifestations: suspected, new, drug relapse, drug failure and chronic cases were enrolled in this study and tested by mycobacteriological and PCR techniques for the investigation about the tubercle bacilli.
The results of the in house "IS6110" PCR showed a good sensitivity (92.4%) and high specificity (98.0%), the positive and negative predictive values were 96.4 % and 95.3 % respectively.
This study showed clearly that the PCR testing using the "IS6110" in the routine analysis is a potential tool for the rapid TB diagnosis, especially for critical cases and would be of great interest to help the clinician in the misdiagnosed critical cases by the traditional radiology.
在全球范围内,结核病(TB)是一个主要的公共卫生问题,快速诊断和适当的化疗成为提高结核病治疗效果的首要任务和严峻挑战。为了在临床标本中尽早诊断结核病并快速检测分枝杆菌(MTB),本研究比较了使用插入序列 6110(“IS6110”)作为靶标的聚合酶链反应(PCR)与传统方法的实用性。
本研究纳入了 305 名具有不同临床表现的患者:疑似、新发、药物复发、药物失败和慢性病例,并通过分枝杆菌学和 PCR 技术对其进行了结核分枝杆菌检测。
实验室自制的“IS6110”PCR 显示出良好的灵敏度(92.4%)和高度的特异性(98.0%),阳性预测值和阴性预测值分别为 96.4%和 95.3%。
本研究清楚地表明,常规分析中使用“IS6110”的 PCR 检测是一种快速诊断结核病的潜在工具,特别是对于危急情况,对于帮助临床医生诊断传统影像学误诊的危急情况具有重要意义。