Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Nov 1;110(11):670-672. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trw079.
Identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the cause of melioidosis, using routine methods takes several days. Use of a monoclonal antibody-based immunofluorescent assay (IFA) on positive blood cultures may speed diagnosis.
We tested the diagnostic accuracy of the IFA on 545 blood cultures positive for Gram-negative organisms at Udon Thani Hospital, Thailand, between June 2015 and August 2016.
Sensitivity of the IFA was 100% and specificity was 99.6%. The median decrease in time to pathogen identification between the IFA result and routine methods was 28 h (IQR 25-51), p<0.0001.
The IFA accurately expedites the diagnosis of melioidosis.
使用常规方法鉴定导致类鼻疽的伯克霍尔德菌需要数天时间。在阳性血培养物上使用基于单克隆抗体的免疫荧光检测(IFA)可能会加速诊断。
我们在 2015 年 6 月至 2016 年 8 月期间,在泰国乌隆他尼医院检测了 545 份革兰氏阴性菌阳性血培养物的 IFA 的诊断准确性。
IFA 的敏感性为 100%,特异性为 99.6%。IFA 结果与常规方法相比,鉴定病原体的时间中位数减少了 28 小时(IQR 25-51),p<0.0001。
IFA 可准确快速诊断类鼻疽。