title: [Clinical studies of the role of the fluorescent circulating antibody test in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis].
abstract: The value was studied, of the test of circulating fluorescent antibodies against M. tuberculosis in establishing the diagnosis of active tuberculosis in 610 patients classified in 4 groups: 1. active tuberculosis bacteriologically confirmed; 2. active tuberculosis with negative bacteriological examination, but confirmed by other methods of criteria; 3. stabilized tuberculosis; 4. non-tuberculous affections. The specificity of the test in active tuberculosis was of 80% in adults and of 91,5% in children. The test was negative in 80,3% of stabilized tuberculosis cases and in 69% of non-tuberculous affections. The sensitivity was lower in active tuberculosis with positive bacilloscopy (67%) against active tuberculosis with negative bacilloscopy (90,6%), a fact explained by a high consumption of anti-bacillary antibodies, demonstrated by positivation of the test when bacilloscopy becomes negative. The use of the test is indicated in establishing a therapeutic test, and in the context of clinical and radiologic explorations, as well as in the expertising of working capacities of previous tuberculosis patients.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis*; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial
vernacular_title: Cercetări clinice privind rolul testului anticorpilor circulanti fluorescenţi în diagnosticul tuberculozei active.