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Potential of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection phase-dependent antigens in the diagnosis of TB disease in a high burden setting.
Chegou, Novel N; Black, Gillian F; Loxton, Andre G; Stanley, Kim; Essone, Paulin N; Klein, Michel R; Parida, Shreemanta K; Kaufmann, Stefan H E; Doherty, T Mark; Friggen, Annemieke H; Franken, Kees L; Ottenhoff, Tom H; Walzl, Gerhard.
Afiliação
  • Chegou NN; DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa. novel@sun.ac.za
BMC Infect Dis ; 12: 10, 2012 Jan 20.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22260319
ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

Confirming tuberculosis (TB) disease in suspects in resource limited settings is challenging and calls for the development of more suitable diagnostic tools. Different Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) infection phase-dependent antigens may be differentially recognized in infected and diseased individuals and therefore useful as diagnostic tools for differentiating between M.tb infection states. In this study, we assessed the diagnostic potential of 118 different M.tb infection phase-dependent antigens in TB patients and household contacts (HHCs) in a high-burden setting.

METHODS:

Antigens were evaluated using the 7-day whole blood culture technique in 23 pulmonary TB patients and in 19 to 21 HHCs (total n = 101), who were recruited from a high-TB incidence community in Cape Town, South Africa. Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) levels in culture supernatants were determined by ELISA.

RESULTS:

Eight classical TB vaccine candidate antigens, 51 DosR regulon encoded antigens, 23 TB reactivation antigens, 5 TB resuscitation promoting factors (rpfs), 6 starvation and 24 other stress response-associated TB antigens were evaluated in the study. The most promising antigens for ascertaining active TB were the rpfs (Rv0867c, Rv2389c, Rv2450c, Rv1009 and Rv1884c), with Areas under the receiver operating characteristics curves (AUCs) between 0.72 and 0.80. A combination of M.tb specific ESAT-6/CFP-10 fusion protein, Rv2624c and Rv0867c accurately predicted 73% of the TB patients and 80% of the non-TB cases after cross validation.

CONCLUSIONS:

IFN-γ responses to TB rpfs show promise as TB diagnostic candidates and should be evaluated further for discrimination between M.tb infection states.
Assuntos

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Tuberculose / Leucócitos Mononucleares / Interferon gama / Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Antígenos de Bactérias Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Evaluation_studies / Prognostic_studies Limite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Tuberculose / Leucócitos Mononucleares / Interferon gama / Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Antígenos de Bactérias Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Evaluation_studies / Prognostic_studies Limite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article