| Literature DB >> 29746483 |
Shekerah Primus1, Lavoisier Akoolo1, Samantha Schlachter1, Kristine Gedroic2, Albert D Rojtman3, Nikhat Parveen1.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Tick-borne infections have been increasing steadily over the years, with co-infections with Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti/divergens emerging as a serious health problem. B. burgdorferi is a spirochetal bacterium that causes Lyme disease while protozoan pathogens belonging to Babesia species are responsible for babesiosis. Currently used serological tests do not always detect acute Lyme disease or babesiosis, and fail to differentiate cured patients from those who get re-infected. This is a major problem for proper diagnosis particularly in regions endemic for tick-borne diseases. Microscopy based evaluation of babesiosis is confirmatory but is labor intensive and insensitive such that many asymptomatic patients remain undetected and donate blood resulting in transfusion transmitted babesiosis.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29746483 PMCID: PMC5945202 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196748
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Fig 1Diagnosis of B. burgdorferi infection by C6 Lyme ELISA.
Histogram showing the Lyme Index distribution produced by C6 Lyme ELISA conducted on all 192 patient samples. An index ≤ 0.90 is a negative Lyme diagnosis (118 samples), an index of 0.91–1.09 is an equivocal result (7 samples), and an index ≥ 1.10 is a positive Lyme diagnosis (67 samples).
Diagnosis of Lyme disease by qPCR and two-tier serology.
| qPCR | Two-tier Serological test results | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | ||
| Positive (at least 1/3 repeats) | 40 | 74 | 114 |
| Negative | 9 | 33 | 42 |
| Total | 49 | 107 | 156 |
| Sensitivity | 81.6% | 5.5% | (70.79%, 92.47%) |
| Specificity | 30.8% | 4.5% | (22.09%, 39.59%) |
| PPV | 35.1% | 4.5% | (26.33%, 43.85%) |
| NPV | 78.6% | 6.3% | (66.16%, 90.98%) |
aCI: Confidence Interval
Diagnosis o Lyme disease by qPCR and serological tests.
| Positive (at least 1/3 repeats) | 83 | 61 | 144 |
| Negative | 21 | 25 | 46 |
| Total | 104 | 86 | 190 |
| Sensitivity | 79.8% | 3.9% | (72.1%, 87.5%) |
| Specificity | 29.1% | 4.9% | (19.5%, 38.7%) |
| PPV | 57.6% | 4.1% | (49.6%, 65.7%) |
| NPV | 54.4% | 7.3% | (40%, 68.7%) |
aCI: Confidence Interval. Two samples gave equivocal results by C6 ELISA and were not tested by 2-tier serological tests
Fig 2Venn diagram summarizing the agreement in positive diagnoses of Lyme disease using different diagnostic methods.
B. burgdorferi infection can be detected by qPCR at a higher rate than C6 Lyme ELISA and 2-tier serological tests. There is significant overlap among all three tests.
Detection of single and co-infections of B. burgdorferi and B. microti using qPCR.
| Uninfected | Single infection | Co-infection | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qPCR ++ or +++ | 0 | 35 (18.2%) | 12 (6.3%) | 36 (18.7%) |
| qPCR + | 0 | 37 (19.3%) | 6 (3.1%) | 38 (19.8%) |
| qPCR Negative | 28 (14.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 28 (14.6%) | 72 (37.5%) | 18 (9.4%) | 74 (38.5%) |
aqPCR ++ or +++: Samples positive two or three times of the 3 qPCR assays done
bqPCR +: Samples positive one of the 3 qPCR assays done