Measurement of Urinary Lactoferrin as a Marker of Urinary Tract Infection
AUTOR(ES)
Arao, Shinsuke
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The usefulness of the measurement of urinary lactoferrin (LF) released from polymorphonuclear leukocytes and of an immunochromatography test strip devised for measuring urinary LF for the simple and rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTI) was evaluated. Urine specimens were collected from apparently healthy persons and patients diagnosed as suffering from UTI. In the preliminary study, the LF concentrations in 121 normal specimens and 88 specimens from patients (60 with UTI) were quantified by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The LF concentration was 3,300.0 ± 646.3 ng/ml (average ± standard error of the mean) in the specimens from UTI patients, whereas it was 30.4 ± 2.7 ng/ml and 60.3 ± 14.9 ng/ml in the specimens from healthy persons and the patients without UTI, respectively. Based on these results, a 200-ng/ml LF concentration was chosen as the cutoff value for negativity. Each urine specimen was reexamined with the newly devised immunochromatography (IC) test strip to calculate the indices of efficacy. Based on the cutoff value, it was calculated that the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of the IC test were 93.3, 89.3, 86.2, and 94.9%, respectively, compared with the results of the microscopic examination of the urine specimens for the presence of leukocytes. The respective indices for UTI were calculated as 95.0, 92.9, 89.7, and 96.6%. The tests were completed within 10 min. These results indicated that urine LF measurement with the IC test strip provides a useful tool for the simple and rapid diagnosis of UTI.
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