EVALUATION OF THE AMPLICOR CMV TEST FOR DIRECT-DETECTION OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS IN PLASMA SPECIMENS

Authors
HIYOSHI M TAGAWA S TAKUBO T TANAKA K NAKAO T HIGENO Y TAMURA K SHIMAOKA M FUJII A HIGASHIHATA M YASUI Y KIM T HIRAOKA A TATSUMI N
Citation
M. Hiyoshi et al., EVALUATION OF THE AMPLICOR CMV TEST FOR DIRECT-DETECTION OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS IN PLASMA SPECIMENS, Journal of clinical microbiology, 35(10), 1997, pp. 2692-2694
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
35
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2692 - 2694
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1997)35:10<2692:EOTACT>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We evaluated the AMPLICOR CMV test (PCR) for the direct detection of c ytomegalovirus in plasma. Sixty-eight specimens were involved for the comparison between the AMPLICOR test and the antigenemia assay. The se nsitivities, specificities, and positive and negative predictive value s were 97.1, 100, 100, and 97.1%, respectively, for the AMPLICOR test and 79.4, 100, 100, and 52.9%, respectively, for the antigenemia assay .