scholarly journals Comparison of the sensitivity and specificity of real-time PCR and in situ hybridization in HPV16 and 18 detection in archival cervical cancer specimens

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Biesaga ◽  
Sława Szostek ◽  
Małgorzata Klimek ◽  
Jerzy Jakubowicz ◽  
Joanna Wysocka
2017 ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
Van Bao Thang Phan ◽  
Hoang Bach Nguyen ◽  
Van Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Thi Nhu Hoa Tran ◽  
Viet Quynh Tram Ngo

Introduction: Infection with HPV is the main cause of cervical cancer. Determining HPV infection and the types of HPV plays an important role in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of cervicitis/cervical cancer. Aims: Determining proportion of high-risk HPV types and the occurrence of coinfection with multiple HPV types. Methods: 177 women with cervicitis or abnormal Pap smear result were enrolled in the study. Performing the real-time PCR for detecting HPV and the reverse DOT-BLOT assay for determining type of HPV in cases of positive PCR. Results: 7 types of high-risk HPV was dectected, the majority of these types were HPV type 18 (74.6%) and HPV type 16 (37.6%); the proportion of infection with only one type of HPV was 30.4% and coinfection with multiple HPV types was higher (69.6%), the coinfected cases with 2 and 3 types were dominated (32.2% and 20.3%, respectively) and the coinfected cases with 4 and 5 types were rare. Conclusion: Use of the real-time PCR and reverse DOT-BLOT assay can determine the high-risk HPV types and the occurrence of coinfection with multiple HPV types. Key words: HPV type, Reverse DOT-BLOT, real-time PCR,PCR, cervical cancer


2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 3935-3937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Golparian ◽  
Stina Boräng ◽  
Martin Sundqvist ◽  
Magnus Unemo

The new BD Max GC real-time PCR assay showed high clinical and analytical sensitivity and specificity. It can be an effective and accurate supplementary test for the BD ProbeTec GC Qx amplified DNA assay, which had suboptimal specificity, and might also be used for initial detection ofNeisseria gonorrhoeae.


2009 ◽  
Vol 161 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Atterby ◽  
J. Learmount ◽  
C. Conyers ◽  
I. Zimmer ◽  
N. Boonham ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuling Ma ◽  
Yong Shao ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Cheng Quan ◽  
Yanhui Zhu ◽  
...  

Aim: To investigate whether cervical cancer (CC) and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) can be screened by analyzing gene expression profiling of peripheral blood. Methods: RNA-sequencing analysis of blood was performed on 11 CC patients, 21 CIN patients and 19 healthy controls (H). Fifty-nine genes were validated by quantitative real-time PCR using blood samples from 46 H, 83 CC and 32 CIN patients. Results: There were significant differences in the expression levels of six genes between CC and H, five genes between CIN and H and four genes between CC and CIN (p < 0.05). Four genes discriminated cervical lesions from H with a sensitivity of 82.61%, a specificity of 87.83% and an area under the curve of 0.8981. Three genes discriminated CC from CIN with a sensitivity of 53.13%, a specificity of 96.39% and an area under the curve of 0.7786. Conclusion: Our findings provided a promising noninvasive quantitative real-time PCR diagnostic assay of CC and CIN.


Diagnostics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Whaley ◽  
Laurel Jenkins ◽  
Fang Hu ◽  
Alexander Chen ◽  
Seydou Diarra ◽  
...  

Detection of Neisseria meningitidis has become less time- and resource-intensive with a monoplex direct real-time PCR (drt-PCR) to amplify genes from clinical specimens without DNA extraction. To further improve efficiency, we evaluated two triplex drt-PCR assays for the detection of meningococcal serogroups AWX and BCY. The sensitivity and specificity of the triplex assays were assessed using 228 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens from meningitis patients and compared to the monoplex for six serogroups. The lower limit of detection range for six serogroup-specific drt-PCR assays was 178–5264 CFU/mL by monoplex and 68–2221 CFU/mL by triplex. The triplex and monoplex showed 100% agreement for six serogroups and the triplex assays achieved similar sensitivity and specificity estimates as the monoplex drt-PCR assays. Our triplex method reduces the time and cost of processing CSF specimens by characterizing six serogroups with only two assays, which is particularly important for testing large numbers of specimens for N. meningitidis surveillance.


2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Veal ◽  
Philip Bell ◽  
Hayley Brown ◽  
Hung-Yoon Choi ◽  
Peter Karuso

Fluorescence has many advantages over traditional colour and radioactive labels, and is playing an increasingly important role in the most powerful analytical techniques. For example, fluorescence is at the heart of many nucleic acid based diagnostics (e.g. DNA microarray, real time-PCR, fluorescence in situ hybridisation, etc), immunofluorescence assays, defined substrate technologies and differential display proteomics and is gradually replacing or complementing other techniques based on colour or radiolabels.


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