KIKUCHI Ken
   Department   School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine
   Position   Professor
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title The clinical utility of a near patient care rapid microarray-based diagnostic test for influenza and respiratory syncytial virus infections in the pediatric setting.
Journal Formal name:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Abbreviation:Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
ISSN code:(1879-0070)0732-8893(Linking)
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 78(4),pp.363-7
Author and coauthor Nakao Akihiro, Hisata Ken, Matsunaga Nobuaki, Fujimori Makoto, Yoshikawa Naomi, Komatsu Mitsutaka, Kikuchi Ken, Takahashi Hiroshi, Shimizu Toshiaki
Publication date 2014/04
Summary We evaluated the potential clinical utility of an automated near patient molecular assay Verigene Respiratory Virus Plus (RV+) and rapid immunochromatographic antigen tests (RIAT) in the pediatric setting for diagnosis of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus infections when testing was performed by the pediatrician seeing the patient. Overall, with respect to influenza virus, sensitivity and specificity for RIAT were 70.8% and 100%, respectively, compared to 100% and 96.2%, respectively, for RV+. For respiratory syncytial virus, sensitivity and specificity for RIAT were 78.9% and 100%, respectively, compared to 100% and 100%, respectively, for RV+. When RIAT and RV+ sensitivity for influenza virus was compared based on the time the patient presented after onset of fever, the sensitivity of RIAT at 6 hours was 37.5% compared to 100% for RV+. At 12 hours, RIAT improved to 60.9%. This study confirms the clinical utility of RV+ in the pediatric setting.
DOI 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.11.005
PMID 24582577