Evaluation of Toxoplasma gondii Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM Assays Incorporating the New Vidia Analyzer System
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
- Vol. 15 (7), 1076-1079
- https://doi.org/10.1128/cvi.00025-08
Abstract
The new Vidia system is a fully automated system based on chemiluminescence and antigen bound to magnetic microparticles, which allows a fast measurement of Toxoplasma gondii -specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM levels. The analytical performances of the Vidia Toxo IgG and IgM assays were compared with those of the automated Vidas, AxSYM, and Liaison Toxo IgG and IgM assays. The comparative evaluation was performed utilizing 204 frozen sera belonging to 166 subjects and 201 fresh sera collected from 198 subjects. For the Vidia Toxo IgG system, the sensitivities were 100% in both the retrospective and prospective studies, and specificities were 98.39% in the retrospective study and 100% in the prospective study, respectively. The sensitivities of the other three Toxo IgG assays were 100%, and the specificities ranged from 96.77% to 100%. For the Vidia Toxo IgM assay, the sensitivity and specificity were 100% in both the retrospective and prospective studies. The overall sensitivities and specificities of the other three Toxo IgM assays ranged from 80% to 100% and from 99.44% to 100%, respectively. In our study, the Vidia system revealed excellent sensitivity (100% for both IgG and IgM assays) and good specificity (99.25% for IgG and 100% for IgM assays).Keywords
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