https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/627438
標題: | Application of nested multiplex polymerase chain reaction respiratory and pneumonia panels in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia | 作者: | TING-YU YEN Chen, Jian-Fu CHUN-YI LU EN-TING WU CHING-CHIA WANG FRANK LEIGH LU LI-MIN HUANG LUAN-YIN CHANG |
關鍵字: | children; community acquired infection; intensive care units; nested multiplex PCR; pneumonia | 公開日期: | 一月-2023 | 卷: | 95 | 期: | 1 | 來源出版物: | Journal of medical virology | 摘要: | Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a serious clinical concern. A lack of accurate diagnosis could hinder pathogen-directed therapeutic strategies. To solve this problem, we evaluated clinical application of nested multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in children with severe CAP. We prospectively enrolled 60 children with severe CAP requiring intensive care between December 2019 and November 2021 at a tertiary medical center. Nested multiplex PCR respiratory panel (RP) and pneumonia panel (PP) were performed on upper and lower respiratory tract specimens. We integrated standard-of-care tests and quantitative PCR for validation. The combination of RP, PP, and standard-of-care tests could detect at least one pathogen in 98% of cases and the mixed viral-bacterial detection rate was 65%. The positive percent agreement (PPA), and negative percent agreement (NPA) for RP were 94% and 99%; the PPA and NPA for PP were 89% and 98%. The distribution of pathogens was similar in the upper and lower respiratory tracts, and the DNA or RNA copies of pathogens in the lower respiratory tract were equal to or higher than those in the upper respiratory tract. PP detected bacterial pathogens in 40 (67%) cases, and clinicians tended to increase bacterial diagnosis and escalate antimicrobial therapy for them. RP and PP had satisfactory performance to help pediatricians make pathogenic diagnoses and establish therapy earlier. The pathogens in the upper respiratory tract had predictive diagnostic values for lower respiratory tract infections in children with severe CAP. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/627438 | ISSN: | 01466615 | DOI: | 10.1002/jmv.28334 |
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