title: Association between the neutrophil myeloperoxidase index and subsets of bacterial infections.
abstract: The mean myeloperoxidase index (MPXI) is calculated during the routine complete blood count performed using the autoanalyzer ADVIA120/2120. The pattern of changes in the neutrophil myeloperoxidase levels in patients with specific infectious diseases was analyzed by assessing the MPXI levels. In patients with bacterial sepsis, identified by positive blood-culture tests, with (n = 29) and without (n = 51) systemic inflammatory response syndrome, the mean MPXI significantly reduced to -3.18 and -2.06, respectively. In contrast, among patients with nontuberculous nonseptic bacterial infections (n = 40), the mean MPXI significantly elevated to 5.51, while tuberculosis patients (n = 37) and patients with viral infection (n = 60) showed an unchanged MPXI (mean values, -0.46 and -1.06, respectively). Among the parameters of inflammation, only the C-reactive protein values showed a weak correlation with the MPXI levels. [Conclusion] These results indicate that MPXI is correlated with some specific infectious states, i.e. MPXI is low in bacterial sepsis and high in nontuberculous nonseptic bacterial infections. MPXI appears to be an independent and useful biomarker for the diagnosis and follow-up of infectious diseases, especially when the MPXI values are obtained at regular intervals during the disease courses of the patients.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Hematology, Division of Medical Biophysics, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yonezawa
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Horie
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsuki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tenjin
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsukamura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoneda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Urahama
authors.forename: Mitsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000097:blood / Q000201:enzymology*; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000032:analysis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007249:Inflammation / Q000201:enzymology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000201:enzymology*; D009195:Peroxidase / Q000097:blood*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000097:blood / Q000201:enzymology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000097:blood / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D002097:C-Reactive Protein; D009195:Peroxidase