Medical and Experimental Mycology Group, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Medellín, Colombia.
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
J Clin Microbiol. 2018 May 25;56(6). doi: 10.1128/JCM.01959-17. Print 2018 Jun.
Histoplasmosis is an important cause of mortality in patients with AIDS, especially in countries with limited access to antiretroviral therapies and diagnostic tests. However, many disseminated infections in Latin America go undiagnosed. A simple, rapid method to detect infection in regions where histoplasmosis is endemic would dramatically decrease the time to diagnosis and treatment, reducing morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to validate a commercial monoclonal galactomannan (HGM) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Immuno-Mycologics [IMMY], Norman, OK, USA) in two cohorts of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). We analyzed urine samples from 589 people (466 from Guatemala and 123 from Colombia), including 546 from PLHIV and 43 from non-PLHIV controls. Sixty-three of these people (35 from Guatemala and 28 from Colombia) had confirmed histoplasmosis by isolation of Using the standard curve provided by the quantitative commercial test, the sensitivity was 98% (95% confidence interval [CI], 95 to 100%) and the specificity was 97% (95% CI, 96 to 99%) (cutoff = 0.5 ng/ml). Semiquantitative results, using a calibrator of 12.5 ng/ml of galactomannan to calculate an enzyme immunoassay index value (EIV) for the samples, showed a sensitivity of 95% (95% CI, 89 to 100%) and a specificity of 98% (95% CI, 96 to 99%) (cutoff ≥ 2.6 EIV). This relatively simple-to-perform commercial antigenuria test showed a high performance with reproducible results in both countries, suggesting that it can be used to detect progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in PLHIV in a wide range of clinical laboratories in countries where histoplasmosis is endemic.
组织胞浆菌病是艾滋病患者死亡的一个重要原因,尤其是在那些难以获得抗逆转录病毒治疗和诊断检测的国家。然而,拉丁美洲许多播散性感染未得到诊断。在组织胞浆菌病流行的地区,有一种简单、快速的检测感染方法,如果能够得到应用,将极大地缩短诊断和治疗的时间,降低发病率和死亡率。本研究的目的是验证一种商业性的单克隆半乳甘露聚糖(HGM)酶联免疫吸附试验(Immuno-Mycologics [IMMY],美国诺曼)在两组艾滋病毒/艾滋病(PLHIV)患者中的有效性。我们分析了来自 589 人的尿液样本(466 人来自危地马拉,123 人来自哥伦比亚),其中 546 人来自 PLHIV,43 人来自非 PLHIV 对照组。这些人中的 63 人(35 人来自危地马拉,28 人来自哥伦比亚)通过分离出真菌来确诊组织胞浆菌病。使用定量商业检测提供的标准曲线,该检测的敏感性为 98%(95%置信区间[CI],95 至 100%),特异性为 97%(95%CI,96 至 99%)(临界值=0.5ng/ml)。半定量结果使用 12.5ng/ml 的半乳甘露聚糖校准器计算样本的酶免疫分析指数值(EIV),结果显示敏感性为 95%(95%CI,89 至 100%),特异性为 98%(95%CI,96 至 99%)(临界值≥2.6EIV)。这种相对简单的商业抗原尿检测在两个国家都表现出了很高的性能,结果可重复,这表明它可以用于检测组织胞浆菌病流行地区广泛的临床实验室中 PLHIV 的进行性播散性组织胞浆菌病。