Development & standardization of an in-house IgM indirect ELISA for the detection of parvovirus B19 infections

Background & objectives: Parvovirus B19 infections occur worldwide; the infection is acquired early in childhood but could occur later. B19 is reported to cause infection in childhood febrile illnesses, and arthropathies in adults and children and in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) seen in adults...

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Published in:Indian journal of medical research (New Delhi, India : 1994) India : 1994), 2017-09, Vol.146 (3), p.381-385
Main Authors: Vadivel, Kumaran, Ramamurthy, Mageshbabu, Sankar, Sathish, Jain, Amita, Srikanth, Padma, Ghosh, Asit, Nandagopal, Balaji, Nair, Aravindan, Sridharan, Gopalan
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Language:English
Subjects:
Chronic illnesses
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Diagnosis
DNA
Edema
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Females
Fever
Health aspects
Hypotheses
Immunoglobulins
Infections
Methods
Original
Pain
Parvovirus infections
Pathogenesis
Patients
Peptides
Proteins
Transplants & implants
Viral infections
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Summary:Background & objectives: Parvovirus B19 infections occur worldwide; the infection is acquired early in childhood but could occur later. B19 is reported to cause infection in childhood febrile illnesses, and arthropathies in adults and children and in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) seen in adults. This study was designed to develop an in-house IgM indirect ELISA for serological screening among patients and controls, and to compare ELISA results with those of nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR) assay. Methods: An in-house IgM indirect ELISA was standardized using peptide sequence of VP1/VP2 region of parvovirus B19. A total of 201 children and adult with febrile illnesses, 216 individuals with non-traumatic arthropathies, 201 cases of chronic anaemia associated with ESRD and 100 healthy controls were tested. Serum was separated from the blood and subsequently used for DNA extraction. The nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR) for the detection of B19V DNA was performed using primers targeting the overlapping region of VP1/VP2 capsid protein genes. Results: A total of 618 samples were tested for parvovirus B19 by an in-house IgM indirect ELISA. Among these samples, six were positive by in-house ELISA. The inter-rater agreement between ELISA and PCR assays was calculated using kappa coefficient analysis. The value of κ was 0.77 and the strength of agreement was 'good' (P
ISSN:0971-5916
DOI:10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_225_16