HCMV pp65 antigenemia assay using indirect alkaline phosphatase staining method
HCMV pp65 antigenemia assay using indirect alkaline phosphatase staining method
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使用间接碱性磷酸酶染色法测定 HCMV pp65 抗原血症
DOI:
10.2220/biomedres.16.125
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发表时间:
1995
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
A. Ito
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作者:
T. Kurihara;J. Hayashi;Tohru Matsuoka;A. Ito
The purpose of this study was to investigate several factors affecting the sensitivity of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) antigenemia assay using indirect alkaline phosphatase staining method for HCMV antigen in peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes. A mixture of two monoclonal antibodies directed against the HCMV lower matrix protein (pp65) was used for detecting HCMV antigen in cytocentrifuged blood leukocytes. Major factors affecting the sensitivity were incubation temperature, washing solution, diluent buffer for monoclonal antibodies, and second antibody. In particular, utilization of alkaline phosphatase-labeled goat anti-mouse antibody as second antibody gave significantly better results in terms of background staining. Using the assay under the optimized condition, one single positive cell among 150,000 antigen-negative polymorphonuclear leukocytes was detectable. Of 83 blood samples from 36 bone marrow transplant recipients examined, 50 samples were concordantly negative and 30 concordantly positive for indirect alkaline phosphatase staining and conven-tional alkaline phosphatase-anti-alkaline phosphatase (APAAP) staining. The sensitivity and specificity of indirect alkaline phosphatase staining against APAAP method were 96.7% (30/31) and 96.1% (50/52), respectively. A significant correlation was found between the number of positive cells detected by indirect staining and APAAP staining (rS = 0.917, Spearman test). When the number of infected polymorphonuclear leukocytes per 1.5 >< 105 cells was more than 3, both staining methods gave concordant positive results. This rapid and sensitive method will be valuable for detection of HCMV antigen without any background