Diagnostic evaluation of urinary lipoarabinomannan at an Ethiopian tuberculosis centre

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
T A TessemaBjarne Bjorvatn

Abstract

Direct capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for lipoarabinomannan (LAM) was performed on urine samples from 200 tuberculosis (TB) patients and 800 non-TB patients routinely diagnosed among consecutive suspects in an Ethiopian TB centre. 50 healthy Ethiopians, 50 healthy individuals and 100 non-TB patients from Norway served as controls. Of the TB patients, 139 (69.5%) were positive for acid-fast bacilli (AFB). In the remaining cases the diagnosis was based on suggestive clinical findings. All Ethiopian non-TB patients were AFB negative and showed no clinical evidence of TB. In the Ethiopian groups, 148 (74%) of the TB patients, 105 (13.1%) of the non-TB patients and 5 (10%) of the healthy controls were positive by the LAM-ELISA. 113 (81.3%) of AFB positives and 35 (57.4%) of AFB-negative TB patients had positive LAM-ELISA. In the Norwegian groups all were LAM negative. The sensitivity and specificity of the LAM-ELISA for TB patients versus Ethiopian non-TB patients were 74% and 86.9%, respectively; the positive and negative predictive values were 58.5% and 93.0%. This study suggests that detection of LAM in the urine of TB patients may improve case finding and that diagnostic tests based on this principle may serve...Continue Reading

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