• 1. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361004, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Clinical Medicine, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350001, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian 362006, P. R. China;
  • 4. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Zhangzhou, Fujian 363002, P. R. China;
  • 5. Clinical Laboratory Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361004, P. R. China;
  • 6. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Quanzhou First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian 362003, P. R. China;
ZENG Huiqing, Email: 13606080893@139.com
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Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of cryptococcal antigen lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (CrAg-LFA) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) among pulmonary cryptococcosis (PC) patients.Methods Patients from the Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, and Quanzhou First Hospital of Fujian Medical University were enrolled prospectively from March 2015 to October 2018. They were confirmed without human immunodeficiency virus infection and were divided into non-PC group (236 cases) and PC group (72 cases). The PC was definitely diagnosed by histopathological evidence from lung biopsy. The CrAg-LFA and culture were performed in both the serum and BALF among the enrolled patients.Results Among 72 PC patients, 54 had a positive serum CrAg-LFA, 1 had positive serum culture; 67 patients had a positive BALF CrAg-LFA, 9 had positive BALF culture. Among the non-PC group, only 1 patient had a weak positive serum CrAg-LFA, none had positive serum culture of PC; 236 cases non-PC patients underwent BALF CrAg-LFA detection, none had a positive BALF CrAg-LFA; none of the 121 cases who had BALF culture yielded a positive result in PC. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predicted value, and negative predicted value in serum were 75.0%, 99.6%, 98.2%, and 92.9%, respectively. Those above mentioned values in the BALF yielded 93.6%, 100.0%, 100.0%, and 97.9%, respectively. Among the PC group, the sensitivity was higher in BALF than that in serum (χ2=8.745, P<0.05).Conclusions The CrAg-LFA is a simple and rapid diagnostic method for PC. The diagnostic value of CrAg-LFA in the BALF is superior to that in serum and fungal culture among the PC patients. The positive BALF CrAg-LFA result is consistent with mycological positive results.

Citation: ZENG Huiqing, CAI Xueying, ZHANG Xiaobin, YANG Dongyong, LIN Li, CHEN Meijun, GUO Weifeng, ZHU Sihong, CHEN Xiangxing, CHEN Xiaorong, HUANG Yemei. The diagnostic value of cryptococcal antigen lateral flow immunochromatographic assay in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid among patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020, 19(3): 258-263. doi: 10.7507/1671-6205.201902006 Copy

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