Optimizing Antimicrobial and Host-Directed Therapies to Improve Clinical Outcomes of Childhood Tuberculous Meningitis.
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SUBMITTER: Gafar F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9410716 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
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Optimizing Antimicrobial and Host-Directed Therapies to Improve Clinical Outcomes of Childhood Tuberculous Meningitis.
Gafar Fajri F Marais Ben J BJ Nataprawira Heda M HM Alffenaar Jan Willem C JWC
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20220801 2
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Project description:Background and purposeThe diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is difficult due to the lack of sensitive methods. Identification of TBM-specific biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may help diagnose and improve our understanding of TBM pathogenesis.Patients and methodsOf the 112 suspected patients with TBM prospectively enrolled in the study, 32 patients with inconclusive diagnosis, non-infectious meningitis, and long-term treatment with hormones and immunosuppressants were excluded. The expression of 8 proteins in the CSF was analyzed using ELISA in 22 patients with definite TBM, 18 patients with probable TBM, and 40 patients with non-TBM.ResultsSignificant differences in the expression of 7 proteins were detected between the TBM and non-TBM groups (P < 0.01). Unsupervised hierarchical clustering (UHC) analysis revealed a disease-specific profile consisting of 7 differentially expressed proteins for TBM diagnosis, with an accuracy of 82.5% (66/80). Logistic regression with forward stepwise analysis indicated that a combination of 3 biomarkers (APOE_APOAI_S100A8) showed a better ability to discriminate TBM from patients with non-TBM [area under the curve (AUC) = 0.916 (95%CI: 0.857-0.976)], with a sensitivity of 95.0% (95%CI: 83.1-99.4%) and a specificity of 77.5% (95%CI: 61.5-89.2%).ConclusionOur results confirmed the potential ability of CSF proteins to distinguish TBM from patients with non-TBM and provided a useful panel for the diagnosis of TBM.
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Project description:Tuberculous meningitis is one of the fatal forms of extra pulmonary disease associated with high mortality and severe neurological defects in affected individuals. We have carried out transcriptome level analysis using whole human genome microarrays to identify differential expression of genes between tuberculous meningitis and normals. In our gene expression analysis, we found 2,434 genes that were differentially erexpressed with 2 or more than 2 fold changes between tuberculous meningitis compared to normal cases. Most of the genes encoded many of the proteins, which involves metabolism, energy pathways, cell growth and/or maintenance, transport and cell communication and signal transduction. We have performed immunohistochemistry for the validation of some of the novel candidates identified in our microarray studies.!Series_overall_design = Present study carried out mRNA expression profiling of five samples from patients diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis and four head injury cases were used as controls. We have used 4X44K arrays from agilent plaform. To validate our microarray results, we have done Immunohistochemistry on 15 TBM cases with control groups.
2011-07-01 | GSE23074 | GEO
Project description:Tuberculous meningitis is one of the fatal forms of extra pulmonary disease associated with high mortality and severe neurological defects in affected individuals. We have carried out transcriptome level analysis using whole human genome microarrays to identify differential expression of genes between tuberculous meningitis and normals. In our gene expression analysis, we found 2,434 genes that were differentially erexpressed with 2 or more than 2 fold changes between tuberculous meningitis compared to normal cases. Most of the genes encoded many of the proteins, which involves metabolism, energy pathways, cell growth and/or maintenance, transport and cell communication and signal transduction. We have performed immunohistochemistry for the validation of some of the novel candidates identified in our microarray studies.!Series_overall_design = Present study carried out mRNA expression profiling of five samples from patients diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis and four head injury cases were used as controls. We have used 4X44K arrays from agilent plaform. To validate our microarray results, we have done Immunohistochemistry on 15 TBM cases with control groups. Present study carried out mRNA expression profiling of five samples from patients diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis and four head injury cases were used as controls. We have used 4X44K arrays from agilent plaform. To validate our microarray results, we have done Immunohistochemistry on 15 TBM cases with control groups.!Series_type = Expression profiling by array
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