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題名 | Immunoglobulin M and G Immunoblots in the Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection=以IgG及IgM免疫墨點法診斷微小病毒B19感染症 |
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作者 | 陳茂源; 李光倫; 洪健清; Chen, Mao-yuan; Lee, Kuang-lun; Hung, Chien-ching; |
期刊 | 臺灣醫學會雜誌 |
出版日期 | 20000100 |
卷期 | 99:1 2000.01[民89.01] |
頁次 | 頁24-32 |
分類號 | 415.239 |
語文 | eng |
關鍵詞 | IgG免疫墨點法; IgM免疫墨點法; 微小病毒B19感染症; Parvovirus B19; ELISA; Immunoblot; Nested PCR; |
英文摘要 | Background and purpose: To identify parvovirus B19 infection by means of immunoglobulin (Ig) G and IgM immunoblots among immunocompetent patients who tested negative or had low-titer B19 IgM antibodies in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). Methods: Serum samples were obtained from 20 patients with parvovirus B19 infection. Another 130 study subjects presumed to be without B19 infection (40 medical personnel and 90 prisoners) were also included. All sera from the patient and study groups tested positive for IgG or IgM with ELISA and were further evaluated using the immunoblot method. Detection of B19 DNA by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was also performed on IgG and IgM positive sera. Results: IgM immunoblots disclosed one false positive IgM ELISA result in the patient group and three false positive results in the study group. In the patient group, four patients were in the latter stage of antibody response to B19 infection as suggested by the low titer of anti-B19 IgM, incomplete IgM immunoblots, with only a weak viral capsid protein VP-N reaction band, and fading but still strong reaction bands on IgG immunoblots. Strong reaction bands on IgG immunoblots comparable to these four patients were found in three of the 130 study group sera. Furthermore, B19 DNA was detected in three of the four patients and one of the three study subjects by means of nested-PCR. A serum sample from one study subject showed strong IgG but no IgM reactivity to viral capsid protein VP2; nested PCR identified B19 DNA in this serum sample. Conclusions: Immunoblots and nested PCR should be applied in the diagnosis of B19 infection for patients with low-titer anti-B19 IgM tested by means of ELISA. For diagnosis of B19 infections in certain clinical entities such as chronic arthritis of recent onset and hydrops fetalis, B19 IgM antibodies may have disappeared but B19 infection can still be recognized by the intensity of the reaction bands on IgG immunoblots. The correlation between chronic B19 infection and persistence of antilinear VP2 epitopes requires further study. |
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