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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, Sep 1996, 563-566, Vol 3, No. 5
Copyright © 1996 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Comparison of two 2,3-diacyl trehalose antigens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium fortuitum for serology in tuberculosis patients

MT Tortola, MA Laneelle and N Martin-Casabona
Servico de Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Ciudad Sanitaria y Universitaria Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.

Immunoglobulin G antibodies against two 2,3-diacyl trehalose (DAT) antigens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (DATT) and Mycobacterium fortuitum (DATF) were studied by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of 356 serum samples. The sera were obtained from non-tuberculosis- infected individuals (282 serum samples) and tuberculosis patients (74 serum samples). Non-tuberculosis-infected individuals were healthy people (120 serum samples; positive purified-protein-derivative skin test, 60 patients; negative purified-protein-derivative skin test, 60 patients) patients with nontuberculosis lung disease (59 serum samples), contacts of sputum-smear-positive tuberculosis patients (57 serum samples), and human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with nontuberculosis lung disease (46 serum samples). Of the 74 patients with tuberculosis, 14 were human immunodeficiency virus infected. The sensitivity of the method using DATT was 44.5%, and that with DATF was 48.6%. The specificities with both antigens were 99.1%. There were no significant differences between the mean values for both antigens (P = 0.2815). We therefore concluded that both antigens were interchangeable. As M. fortuitum, a fast-growing mycobacterium, could be a good source of antigen DAT, these results deserve consideration in the serology of tuberculosis.

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