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Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients
False negative interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) results constitute the major dilemma for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) infections. Herein, we conducted a cohort study to compare the host immunological response to TB-specific antigens between active TB patients with positive and negative IGRA r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9471257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36119060 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.904308 |
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author | Li, Qiang Ren, Weicong Yuan, Jinfeng Guo, Haiping Shang, Yuanyuan Wang, Wei Pan, Junhua Gao, Mengqiu Pang, Yu |
author_facet | Li, Qiang Ren, Weicong Yuan, Jinfeng Guo, Haiping Shang, Yuanyuan Wang, Wei Pan, Junhua Gao, Mengqiu Pang, Yu |
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description | False negative interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) results constitute the major dilemma for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) infections. Herein, we conducted a cohort study to compare the host immunological response to TB-specific antigens between active TB patients with positive and negative IGRA results and control groups. A total of 274 laboratory-confirmed TB patients were included in our analysis, consisting of 221 were IGRA positive and 53 were IGRA negative. Patients with the elderly were identified as an independent risk factor for negative IGRA results. In addition, the elevated level of IL-4 and the decreased levels of IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-6, IL-1β, and IL-12 in IGRA negative TB relative to IGRA positive TB group, demonstrating a significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm between two groups. The IFN-γ&IL-2 based assay could correctly identify 247 out of 307 MTB-infected individuals [271 TB patients and 36 individuals with latent TB infection (LTBI)], demonstrating a sensitivity of 80.5%. Then the IFN-γ and IL-4 were applied to distinguish healthy control and IGRA-negative group. When using the stepwise algorithm, the sensitivity for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infections was significantly increased from 80.5% to 89.6%. Additionally, patients with negative IGRA results had a conversion to culture-negative status longer than those with positive IGRA results. In conclusion, a stepwise algorithm outperforms IGRA assays to accurately identify MTB infections by the combination IFN-γ, IL-2, and IL-4. Further study is needed to evaluate the accuracy of our diagnostic algorithm in the LTBI population. |
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spelling | pubmed-94712572022-09-15 Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients Li, Qiang Ren, Weicong Yuan, Jinfeng Guo, Haiping Shang, Yuanyuan Wang, Wei Pan, Junhua Gao, Mengqiu Pang, Yu Front Immunol Immunology False negative interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) results constitute the major dilemma for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) infections. Herein, we conducted a cohort study to compare the host immunological response to TB-specific antigens between active TB patients with positive and negative IGRA results and control groups. A total of 274 laboratory-confirmed TB patients were included in our analysis, consisting of 221 were IGRA positive and 53 were IGRA negative. Patients with the elderly were identified as an independent risk factor for negative IGRA results. In addition, the elevated level of IL-4 and the decreased levels of IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-6, IL-1β, and IL-12 in IGRA negative TB relative to IGRA positive TB group, demonstrating a significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm between two groups. The IFN-γ&IL-2 based assay could correctly identify 247 out of 307 MTB-infected individuals [271 TB patients and 36 individuals with latent TB infection (LTBI)], demonstrating a sensitivity of 80.5%. Then the IFN-γ and IL-4 were applied to distinguish healthy control and IGRA-negative group. When using the stepwise algorithm, the sensitivity for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infections was significantly increased from 80.5% to 89.6%. Additionally, patients with negative IGRA results had a conversion to culture-negative status longer than those with positive IGRA results. In conclusion, a stepwise algorithm outperforms IGRA assays to accurately identify MTB infections by the combination IFN-γ, IL-2, and IL-4. Further study is needed to evaluate the accuracy of our diagnostic algorithm in the LTBI population. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9471257/ /pubmed/36119060 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.904308 Text en Copyright © 2022 Li, Ren, Yuan, Guo, Shang, Wang, Pan, Gao and Pang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Immunology Li, Qiang Ren, Weicong Yuan, Jinfeng Guo, Haiping Shang, Yuanyuan Wang, Wei Pan, Junhua Gao, Mengqiu Pang, Yu Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients |
title | Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients |
title_full | Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients |
title_fullStr | Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients |
title_short | Significant difference in Th1/Th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between IGRA-positive and IGRA-negative patients |
title_sort | significant difference in th1/th2 paradigm induced by tuberculosis-specific antigens between igra-positive and igra-negative patients |
topic | Immunology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9471257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36119060 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.904308 |
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