Performance Characteristics of the BDProbeTec System for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Respiratory Specimens
AUTOR(ES)
Pfyffer, Gaby E.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Strand displacement amplification (SDA) technology has been established in a fully automated system known as BDProbeTec. Target sequences of the insertion sequence IS6110 and the 16S rRNA gene are simultaneously amplified, which thus allows the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and, as an additional option, of most Mycobacterium species. Detection occurs via a chemiluminescent microwell assay that employs the simultaneous hybridization and capture of SDA products with a biotinylated capture probe and an alkaline phosphatase detector probe. We have evaluated the performance of the BDProbeTec system in detecting M. tuberculosis complex by testing 799 respiratory specimens and comparing the results to those obtained by conventional diagnostic techniques, i.e., microscopy and culture (solid and radiometric media). M. tuberculosis was cultivated from 41 specimens, of which 28 (68.4%) were smear positive and 13 (31.6%) were smear negative. The overall sensitivity of the SDA assay was 97.6% (for smear-positive specimens, 100%; for smear-negative specimens, 92.3%), and specificity was 95.0%. After resolution of the discrepancies by studying the patients’ clinical data, sensitivity and specificity were 97.9 and 96.5%, respectively, and positive and negative predictive values were 63.9 and 99.9%, respectively. These preliminary data demonstrate that the BDProbeTec system has promising performance characteristics with respiratory specimens and that it allows the detection of M. tuberculosis complex within hours.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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