Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2009, 53:4783–4788.PubMedCrossRef Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Authors’ contributions All authors had equal contribution in preparing this article. DEX drafted the first manuscript of this article based on his MSc thesis, which was supervised by RCP and ACG. RG was involved in the determination of antimicrobial susceptible profile. LCCF carried out the molecular
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“Background Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a cell wall-less bacterium belonging to the Mollicutes class, which invades the human host respiratory epithelium by adhering with a tip-like attachment organelle. Several proteins, including the major surface adhesins P1, P30, P116 and proteins HMW1 to HMW3, as well as proteins A, B and C, interact to constitute this tip-like attachment organelle [1–5]. M. pneumoniae causes atypical pneumonia and other respiratory tract infections (RTIs) such as tracheobronchitis, and is responsible for up to 20% of all cases of community-acquired pneumonia, especially among school-aged children and young adults [6, 7]. M. pneumoniae is intrinsically ARN-509 supplier resistant to beta-lactams antibiotics
usually given as the first-line treatment of RTIs. Macrolides and related CRT0066101 concentration antibiotics represent the treatment of choice for M. pneumoniae respiratory infections. Therefore, an early and specific diagnosis is necessary to give the patient the correct antibiotic treatment. Serology, including the complement fixation test (CFT) and different enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), is the most common laboratory method used for the diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infection although culture methods and PCR are also performed. The CFT may have limited value because it also measures antibodies derived from
earlier infections and antibodies to M. pneumoniae glycolipid antigens; thus, it can react with antigens of different origins [7]. Previous studies comparing the CFT to the PCR detection of M. pneumoniae, however found good sensitivity and specificity for the CFT [8, 9]. Many ELISA-based assays, using protein extracts, Resveratrol membrane preparations, glycolipid extracts or whole cell lysates have been developed for the detection of M. pneumoniae infection [8]. In particular, good sensitivity has been observed for assays with P1 adhesin-enriched extracts [8, 10, 11]. In a study by Beersma et al. [8], 12 commercial serologic assays for M. pneumoniae specific immunoglobulins M and G and the CFT were evaluated with PCR used as the “”gold standard”". The IgM assay that showed the best sensitivity and specificity were from the Ani Labsystems (77% and 92%, respectively) corresponding to P1-enriched extracts.