title: A comparison of galactomannan-ELISA and a newly developed galactomannan-LATEX test in the serologic diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancies.
abstract: We compared the sensitivity and specificity of galactomannan enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (GM-ELISA) with that of a newly developed version of the commercially available latex agglutination test (GM-LATEX) in our patient population. Serum samples were collected from 144 healthy adult donors (controls); another 17 consecutive hematologic malignancy (HM) patients with probable or proven invasive aspergillosis (IA) were tested. Clinical, microbiological, and pathological data were obtained. The sensitivity of the GM-LATEX test was 53% per patient and 66% per sample and that of the GM-ELISA test was 41% per patient and 21% per sample. Both tests demonstrated a specificity of 99%. The GM-LATEX test demonstrated a superior sensitivity in terms of detecting galactomannan and thus may be useful in the diagnosis of IA in patients with HM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Keutgen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hachem
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pham-Williams
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tarrand
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Raad
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods*; D005690:Galactose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D019337:Hematologic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007841:Latex Fixation Tests / Q000379:methods*; D008351:Mannans / Q000032:analysis; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D008351:Mannans; C012990:galactomannan; D005690:Galactose