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. 1990 May;28(5):905–909. doi: 10.1128/jcm.28.5.905-909.1990

Comparison of antibody, antigen, and metabolite assays for hospitalized patients with disseminated or peripheral candidiasis.

M E Bougnoux 1, C Hill 1, D Moissenet 1, M Feuilhade de Chauvin 1, M Bonnay 1, I Vicens-Sprauel 1, F Pietri 1, M McNeil 1, L Kaufman 1, J Dupouy-Camet 1, et al.
PMCID: PMC267834  PMID: 2351733

Abstract

Repeat serum samples from 22 patients with proven disseminated candidiasis and 42 with simple peripheral colonization were assayed for Candida antibodies by coelectrosyneresis, immunoprecipitation, and A and B immunofluorescence, for metabolites by D-arabinitol measurement, and for antigens by the mannan immunoassay and Cand-tec latex agglutination (mean number of samples tested, 2.5 per patient). For the antibody and metabolite assays, the results showed no statistical difference between the two groups. By contrast, the results of both antigen assays were positive for a significantly larger number of patients with disseminated candidiasis than of those with simple peripheral colonization. Results were regardless of whether the patients were neutropenic. They were not predictive of death. We calculated that the mannan antigen assay had 29% sensitivity and 97% specificity for the diagnosis of disseminated candidiasis. Likelihood ratios of a positive and a negative result of this test were 9.2 and 0.7, respectively, for this diagnosis. In the latex agglutination test, likelihood ratios were 2.5, 1.5, 1.6, and 0.3 when the test was positive for dilutions of 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2 and was negative, respectively.

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