Title
Laboratory evaluation of a point-of-care downward-flow assay for simultaneous detection of antibodies to treponema pallidum and human immunodeficiency virus
Date Issued
01 July 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
American Society for Microbiology
Abstract
Combining the detection of syphilis and HIV antibodies into one point-of-care test integrates syphilis screening into already existing HIV screening programs, which may be particularly beneficial in settings such as antenatal care. Using the INSTI Multiplex downward-flow immunoassay, we tested 200 stored serum samples from high-risk patients enrolled in a longitudinal study on HIV infection and syphilis in Peruvian men who have sex with men and transgender women. This rapid assay detected HIV and Treponema pallidum serum antibodies with sensitivities of 100% (95% confidence interval [CI], 95.9% to 100%) and 87.4% (95% CI, 81.4% to 92.0%), respectively, and specificities of 95.5% (95% CI, 89.9% to 98.5%) and 97.0% (95% CI, 84.2% to 99.9%), respectively (n200). The sensitivity for syphilis antibody detection was higher in patients with a rapid plasma reagin titer of>1:8 (97.3%) than in those with a titer of<1:4 (90%) or a nonreactive titer (66.7%).
Start page
1922
End page
1924
Volume
54
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Inmunología Virología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84976448148
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
ISSN of the container
00951137
Sponsor(s)
This work, including the efforts of Carlos F. Caceres, was funded by NIH/NIAID (1R01AI099727).
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