Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection by using pyloriset EIA-G and EIA-A for detection of serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA antibodies
| Autor: | R Leino, H Nurmi, M R Ståhlberg, O P Lehtonen, R Grönfors, A Mansikka, H Kujari, I Räihä, C Granberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Immunoglobulin A Adult Male Adolescent Spirillaceae Biopsy Immunoglobulin G Serology Helicobacter Infections Immunoenzyme Techniques medicine Humans Child Aged Aged 80 and over biology medicine.diagnostic_test Helicobacter pylori business.industry Middle Aged biology.organism_classification Antibodies Bacterial Evaluation Studies as Topic Immunoassay Child Preschool Gastritis Immunology biology.protein Female Antibody medicine.symptom business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of clinical microbiology. 31(6) |
| ISSN: | 0095-1137 |
| Popis: | We evaluated the performance of new enzyme immunoassay (EIA) kits (Pyloriset; Orion Corporation, Orion Diagnostica, Espoo, Finland) for the detection of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA antibodies to Helicobacter pylori in serum. Serum samples from 195 patients with upper abdominal complaints were collected. Biopsy specimens of the gastric mucosae were taken for histological analysis and bacterial culture. The sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values, and efficacy of the Pyloriset EIA-G in detecting IgG antibodies to H. pylori were 92, 84, 88, 90, and 89%, respectively, when compared with those of the reference methods used. The corresponding data for detection of IgA antibodies were 80, 89, 89, 79, and 84%, respectively. The overall prevalence of defined H. pylori positivity was 54%. Moreover, the antibody tests showed a very good correlation with the biopsy findings. IgG antibodies were found in 93% of sera from patients with documented gastritis and H. pylori positivity, whereas only 4% of the sera from patients with documented gastritis and H. pylori-negative patients was positive. The results obtained for IgA antibodies were 81 and 6%, respectively. We conclude that the Pyloriset EIA-G, the test for IgG antibodies, is a good and reliable test for the detection of antibodies to H. pylori and as an indication of H. pylori infection. The determination of IgA antibodies may be used as a test that complements the IgG antibody assay. |
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