Background: Cryptococcosis is a global invasive mycosis associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) testing from serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been regarded as a gold standard for early diagnosis. This study aimed to develop and validate a rapid and sensitive sandwich chemiluminescent magnetic microparticle immunoassay (CMIA) for quantitative detection of CrAg in sera.
Research Design And Methods: CMIA is based on magnetic beads modified with capture antibodies and biotinylated antibodies and Streptavidin-polyHRP, where biotinylated antibodies functioned as the recognition element and Streptavidin-polyHRP as the signal component. Assay parameters were first optimized, and then assay performances were evaluated.
Results: Under optimized conditions, the total runtime of the CMIA was 22 min. The assay had a wide linear range (2 -10,000 ng/mL) and high analytical sensitivity (0.24 ng/mL), together with acceptable reproducibility, accuracy, and stability. Besides, it exhibited no cross-reactivity with other pathogens. Importantly, the assay showed 92.91% (95% CI, 80.97-93.02%) overall qualitative agreement with a commercial ELISA kit in a retrospective cohort of 55 cases with confirmed cryptococcal infection, and 72 controls without evidence of invasive fungal disease (IFD).
Conclusion: These results demonstrated that the present study paved a novel strategy for reliable quantitative detection of CrAg in sera.
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