ArminLabs, MVZ für Integrative Diagnostik & Medizin GmbH, Augsburg, Germany.
Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2742:77-90. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3561-2_6.
To diagnose Lyme Borreliosis, it is advised to use an enzyme-linked immunosorbent test to check for serum antibodies specific for Lyme and all tests with positive or ambiguous enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) results being confirmed by immunoblot. This method of measuring the humoral immunity in human fluids (e.g., by ELISA) has provided robust and reproducible results for decades and similar assays have been validated for monitoring of B cell immunity. These immunological tests that detect antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi are useful in the diagnosis of Borreliosis on a routine basis. The variety of different Borrelia species and their different geographic distributions are the main reasons why standards and recommendations are not identical across all geographic regions of the world. In contrast to humoral immunity, the T cell reaction or cellular immunity to the Borrelia infection has not been well elucidated, but over time with more studies a novel T cell-based assay (EliSpot) has been developed and validated for the sensitive detection of antigen-specific T cell responses to B. burgdorferi. The EliSpot Lyme assay can be used to study the T cell response elicited by Borrelia infections, which bridges the gap between the ability to detect humoral immunity and cellular immunity in Lyme disease. In addition, detecting cellular immunity may be a helpful laboratory diagnostic test for Lyme disease, especially for seronegative Lyme patients. Since serodiagnostic methods of the Borrelia infection frequently provide false positive and negative results, this T cell-based diagnostic test (cellular assay) may help in confirming a Lyme diagnosis. Many clinical laboratories are convinced that the cellular assay is superior to the Western Blot assay in terms of sensitivity for detecting the underlying Borrelia infection. Research also suggests that there is a dissociation between the magnitude of the humoral and the T cell-mediated cellular immune responses in the Borrelia infection. Lastly, the data implies that the EliSpot Lyme assay may be helpful to identify Borrelia infected individuals when the serology-based diagnostic fails to do so. Here in this chapter the pairing of humoral and cellular immunity is employed to evaluate the adaptive response in patients.
为了诊断莱姆病,建议使用酶联免疫吸附试验(ELISA)检测血清中针对莱姆病的特异性抗体,所有 ELISA 检测结果阳性或可疑的患者都需要通过免疫印迹法进行确认。几十年来,这种测量人体液中体液免疫的方法(例如 ELISA)提供了可靠且可重复的结果,并且已经验证了类似的检测方法可用于监测 B 细胞免疫。这些检测针对伯氏疏螺旋体的抗体的免疫检测在常规诊断莱姆病方面非常有用。不同的伯氏疏螺旋体种类及其不同的地理分布是导致世界上所有地理区域的标准和建议都不完全相同的主要原因。与体液免疫相反,针对伯氏疏螺旋体感染的 T 细胞反应或细胞免疫尚未得到很好的阐明,但随着时间的推移,通过更多的研究,一种新的基于 T 细胞的检测方法(EliSpot)已被开发和验证,用于敏感检测针对 B. burgdorferi 的抗原特异性 T 细胞反应。EliSpot 莱姆检测可用于研究伯氏疏螺旋体感染引起的 T 细胞反应,它填补了莱姆病检测体液免疫和细胞免疫能力之间的空白。此外,检测细胞免疫可能是莱姆病的一种有用的实验室诊断检测方法,尤其是对于血清阴性的莱姆病患者。由于伯氏疏螺旋体感染的血清诊断方法经常提供假阳性和假阴性结果,因此这种基于 T 细胞的诊断检测(细胞检测)可能有助于确认莱姆病的诊断。许多临床实验室认为,在检测潜在的伯氏疏螺旋体感染方面,细胞检测比 Western Blot 检测更敏感。研究还表明,在伯氏疏螺旋体感染中,体液免疫和 T 细胞介导的细胞免疫反应的强度之间存在分离。最后,数据表明,当基于血清学的诊断方法失败时,EliSpot 莱姆检测可能有助于识别感染伯氏疏螺旋体的个体。在本章中,我们将结合体液和细胞免疫来评估患者的适应性反应。