Background: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA load monitoring in blood has been shown to be essential for the diagnosis of EBV-associated diseases. However, the methods currently used to assess EBV DNA load are often time-consuming and require prior blood separation.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative diagnostic value of EBV DNA load monitoring in whole blood, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and plasma after automated DNA extraction using the MagNA Pure extractor followed by LightCycler real-time quantitative PCR (LC-PCR).
Study Design: First, EBV DNA load was assessed retrospectively after automated or manual extraction on 104 PBMC specimens. Second, EBV DNA load was determined prospectively with the automated extraction procedure in the whole blood, PBMCs and plasma of 100 samples from patients with EBV-related diseases (group 1, n = 20), HIV-seropositive individuals (group 2, n = 66), and healthy EBV carriers (group 3, n = 14).
Results: A good correlation was observed between automated and manual extraction on 104 PBMC specimens (r = 0.956; P < 0.0001). In the prospective study, 67 samples were positive in both whole blood and PBMCs, with a good correlation between EBV DNA loads in whole blood and PBMCs (r = 0.936; P < 0.0001). Only 18/100 samples were positive in plasma. Higher viral loads were regularly observed in the three blood compartments from group 1 than from groups 2 and 3.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated that an automated extraction of EBV DNA is easier to perform in whole blood or plasma than in PBMCs and facilitates the standardisation of EBV DNA measurement by real-time quantitative PCR. The quantitative detection of EBV DNA load in whole blood appeared more sensitive than in plasma for infectious mononucleosis in immunocompetent patients, probably because of a rapid loss of plasmatic EBV DNA. In transplant patients, EBV DNA load monitoring in whole blood and in plasma turned out to be equivalent in terms of feasibility and accuracy for the early diagnosis of post-transplant lymphoproliferative diseases (PTLDs).
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