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Title
Prospective multicenter comparison of urine culture with PCR on dried blood spots using 2 different extraction and PCR methods in neonates suspected for congenital cytomegalovirus infection
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Abstract
To evaluate the potential of dried blood spots (DBS) as a congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) testing specimen, the laboratory diagnostic accuracy of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on DBS was compared to viral urine cultures from neonates suspected for cCMV. Two different extraction methods (EasyMAG, bioMerieux versus Qiagen) and 2 real-time PCR protocols (in-house versus Argene) were compared. We were able to collect both DBS and urine samples in 6 Belgian neonatal units from 276 neonates suspected for cCMV registered in CMVREG (an online neonatal registry system). Forty-eight neonates (17.4%) were positive by viral culture in urine. Laboratory diagnostic accuracy parameters of DBS-PCR were both extraction method and PCR protocol dependent. Not all DBS-CMV-PCR methods successfully detected urine-culture-positive neonates born after first-trimester seroconversions. Interestingly, however, all urine-culture-positive neonates having clinical signs of cCMV did consistently score positive. Keywords: Cytomegalovirus Congenital Dried blood spot testing (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease. - Amsterdam
Publication
Amsterdam : 2020
ISSN
0732-8893
DOI
10.1016/J.DIAGMICROBIO.2020.115051
Volume/pages
97 :3 (2020) , 6 p.
Article Reference
UNSP 115051
ISI
000542095000002
Pubmed ID
32408061
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Last edited 10.11.2024
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