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. 2014 Jun;8(6):DC12-5.
doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/7578.4480. Epub 2014 Jun 20.

Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori: Evaluation of Two Enzyme Immunoassays, Testing Serum IgG and IgA Response in the Anand District of Central Gujarat,India

Himani Bhardwaj Pandya  1 , Jagdish Shantilal Patel  2 , Harihar Hardas Agravat  3 , Navneet Kumar Ramdayal Singh  4
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Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori: Evaluation of Two Enzyme Immunoassays, Testing Serum IgG and IgA Response in the Anand District of Central Gujarat,India

Himani Bhardwaj Pandya et al. J Clin Diagn Res. 2014 Jun.

Abstract

Context: Validation of an accurate and less cumbersome noninvasive method to detect current Helicobacter pylori infection is a requisite for any laboratory.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to corroborate the usefulness of two commercially available kits NovaTec ELISA-A and ELISA-G, in the detection of ongoing H.pylori infection.

Materials and methods: Two hundred and twenty eight consecutive serum samples of symptomatic patients who attended the endoscopy unit of "Deep" surgical hospital, Anand, which were collected during the period from 27th February 2008 to 31st august 2011, were studied. The sera were processed and tested for the detection of the H.pylori IgG and IgA antibody by using a solid phase; capture micro well ELISA, procured from Nova Tec immunodiagnostica GmbH Germany.

Results: IgG ELISA showed 100% sensitivity and Negative predictive value (NPV), while IgA ELISA was better in terms of specificity (61.4%) and accuracy (63%) as compared to IgG ELISA. We found 7% (16/228) of IgA positive cases with IgG negative response. IgG response was more common in reflux esophagitis patients (OR 1.451, 95%CI-0.850-2.477) and then in gastritis (OR 0.962, 95%CI-0.570-1.621) and duodenitis(OR-0.806, 95%CI-0.112-5.827), while IgA positive response was more common in duodenitis patients (OR-1.383, 95%CI-0.191-9.995) and reflux esophagitis patients (OR 1.289, 95% CI-0.756-2.197) and least in duodenal ulcer patients (OR 0.670, 95%CI-0.222-2.029).

Conclusion: IgG update is reliable and accurate test and can be expedient as a screening test and thus serve as an alternative to endoscopy. For the purpose of excluding infection with H.pylori, the performance of IgG is moderate (low specificity) but can be improved by conjunctional IgA testing which will offer some additional diagnostic value.

Keywords: Enzyme linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA); Helicobacter pylori; Immunoglobulin A (IgA); Immunoglobulin G (IgG).

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