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- Document 0097
- DOCN M9620097
- TI Diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia by bronchoalveolar lavage in
- AIDS patients. Comparison of Diff-Quik, fungifluor stain, direct
- immunofluorescence test and polymerase chain reaction.
- DT 9602
- AU Armbruster C; Pokieser L; Hassl A; IInd Medical Department, University
- of Vienna, Austria.
- SO Acta Cytol. 1995 Nov-Dec;39(6):1089-93. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96074702
- AB OBJECTIVE: To assess the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of
- Diff-Quik, fungifluor stain, the direct immunofluorescence test (DIFT)
- and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the diagnosis of Pneumocystis
- carinii pneumonia (PCP) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected
- patients. STUDY DESIGN: From December 1992 through November 1993, 112
- bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples were obtained from 80
- HIV-infected patients. BALF samples were processed for cytologic and
- microbiologic analysis and for PCR. Cytologic examination was carried
- out on Diff-Quik-stained cytocentrifuge preparations and with
- May-Grunwald-Giemsa staining and fungifluor staining. For diagnosis of
- PC infection, DIFT and PCR were used. RESULTS: Thirty-two of 112 acute
- episodes were caused by P carinii. Diff-Quik had the highest sensitivity
- (84.8%) as compared to fungifluor stain (60.0%), DIFT (59.4%) and PCR
- (65.6%). The specificity was 98.7% with Diff-Quik, 100% with fungifluor
- stain, and 98.6% and 97.3% with DIFT and PCR, respectively. Accuracy was
- high with every method (94.4% with Diff-Quik, 88.3% with fungifluor
- stain, 86.7% with DIFT and 87.6% with PCR). CONCLUSION: Diff-Quik is a
- good diagnostic tool in the diagnosis of PCP. The combination of
- Diff-Quik and fungifluor stain is recommended because of its
- cost-effectiveness and because of its rapid diagnosis of severe PCP. PCR
- and DIFT should be used only on patients judged clinically to have PCP
- with discrepant results in Diff-Quik and fungifluor stain in BALF
- samples.
- DE AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*DIAGNOSIS *Bronchoalveolar
- Lavage Comparative Study Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Direct Human
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii/*DIAGNOSIS Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sensitivity and Specificity Staining JOURNAL ARTICLE
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