Devan Jaganath1,2,3, Tania F Reza2,3, Peter Wambi4, Jascent Nakafeero4, Emma Kiconco4, Gertrude Nanyonga4, Ernest A Oumo4, Moses C Nsereko4, Moorine P Sekadde5, Mary G Nabukenya-Mudiope6, Midori Kato-Maeda2,3, Alfred Andama7, Christina Yoon2,3, Swomitra Mohanty8,9, Eric Wobudeya4, Adithya Cattamanchi2,3,10. 1. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. 2. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. 3. Center for Tuberculosis, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. 4. Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. 5. National TB and Leprosy Program, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda. 6. Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda. 7. Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda. 8. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 9. Department of Materials Science Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 10. Center for Vulnerable Populations, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: C-reactive protein (CRP) has shown promise as a triage tool for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in adults living with the human immunodeficiency virus. We performed the first assessment of CRP for TB triage in children. METHODS: Symptomatic children less than 15 years old were prospectively enrolled in Kampala, Uganda. We completed a standard TB evaluation and measured CRP using a point-of-care assay. We determined the sensitivity and specificity of CRP to identify pulmonary TB in children using 10 mg/L and 5 mg/L cut-off points and generated a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve to determine alternative cut-offs that could approach the target accuracy for a triage test (≥90% sensitivity and ≥70% specificity). RESULTS: We included 332 children (median age 3 years old, interquartile range [IQR]: 1-6). The median CRP level was low at 3.0 mg/L (IQR: 2.5-26.6) but was higher in children with Confirmed TB than in children with Unlikely TB (9.5 mg/L vs. 2.9 mg/L, P-value = .03). At a 10 mg/L cut-off, CRP sensitivity was 50.0% (95% confidence interval [CI], 37.0-63.0) among Confirmed TB cases and specificity was 63.3% (95% CI, 54.7-71.3) among children with Unlikely TB. Sensitivity increased to 56.5% (95% CI, 43.3-69.0) at the 5 mg/L cut-off, but specificity decreased to 54.0% (95% CI, 45.3-62.4). The area under the ROC curve was 0.59 (95% CI, 0.51-0.67), and the highest sensitivity achieved was 66.1% at a specificity of 46.8%. CONCLUSIONS: CRP levels were low in children with pulmonary TB, and CRP was unable to achieve the accuracy targets for a TB triage test.
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