Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2013
Intestinal schistosomiasis in pre school-aged children of Lake Albert, Uganda: diagnostic accuracy of a rapid test for detection of anti-schistosome antibodies.
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Dawson Emily M, Sousa-Figueiredo José C, Kabatereine Narcis B, Doenhoff Michael J, Stothard J Russell
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BACKGROUND: A sensitive and reliable rapid diagnostic test (RDT) which should have comparable diagnostic performance against reference host serological methods is urgently needed for use in point-of-care (POC) diagnosis of intestinal schistosomiasis in pre school-aged children.
METHODS: The diagnostic accuracy of a RDT incorporating Schistosoma mansoni cercarial transformation fluid (SmCTF) for anti-schistosome antibody detection was evaluated with serum samples from a cohort of children from Uganda: 42 children aged under the age of 3 years and 40 children aged between 3 and 5 years. The infection status of these children had been previously determined by inspection of quadruplicate Kato-Katz faecal smears, a single urine circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) dipstick and antibody titres to S. mansoni soluble egg antigen (SmSEA) with a commercially available ELISA.
RESULTS: Upon comparison with quadruplicate Kato-Katz the sensitivity and specificity of the RDT were 75.7% and 31.1%, respectively. When using the SmSEA-ELISA as an alternate reference test, the RDT achieved 81.3% sensitivity and 61.1% specificity. Sensitivity and specificity compared to the urine-CCA test was 74.5% and 32.3% respectively. Sensitivity differed significantly according to age group.
CONCLUSIONS: The performance of the RDT within this study appeared favourable when compared with the currently-available SmSEA-ELISA. Looking to the future a serological POC test would be particularly promising for use in disease mapping in younger children especially in guiding administration of praziquantel treatment in selective treatment settings.
METHODS: The diagnostic accuracy of a RDT incorporating Schistosoma mansoni cercarial transformation fluid (SmCTF) for anti-schistosome antibody detection was evaluated with serum samples from a cohort of children from Uganda: 42 children aged under the age of 3 years and 40 children aged between 3 and 5 years. The infection status of these children had been previously determined by inspection of quadruplicate Kato-Katz faecal smears, a single urine circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) dipstick and antibody titres to S. mansoni soluble egg antigen (SmSEA) with a commercially available ELISA.
RESULTS: Upon comparison with quadruplicate Kato-Katz the sensitivity and specificity of the RDT were 75.7% and 31.1%, respectively. When using the SmSEA-ELISA as an alternate reference test, the RDT achieved 81.3% sensitivity and 61.1% specificity. Sensitivity and specificity compared to the urine-CCA test was 74.5% and 32.3% respectively. Sensitivity differed significantly according to age group.
CONCLUSIONS: The performance of the RDT within this study appeared favourable when compared with the currently-available SmSEA-ELISA. Looking to the future a serological POC test would be particularly promising for use in disease mapping in younger children especially in guiding administration of praziquantel treatment in selective treatment settings.