イタザワ トシコ
ITAZAWA TOSHIKO
板澤 寿子 所属 埼玉医科大学 医学部 小児科(小児科、新生児科) 職種 教授 |
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論文種別 | 学術雑誌(原著) |
言語種別 | 英語 |
査読の有無 | 査読あり |
表題 | MxA-based recognition of viral illness in febrile children by a whole blood assay. |
掲載誌名 | 正式名:Pediatric research ISSNコード:00313998 |
出版社 | INT PEDIATRIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC |
巻・号・頁 | 60(6),770-4頁 |
著者・共著者 | Motokazu Nakabayashi,Yuichi Adachi,Toshiko Itazawa,Yoshie Okabe,Hirokazu Kanegane,Mizuho Kawamura,Akihito Tomita,Toshio Miyawaki |
発行年月 | 2006/12 |
概要 | Febrile children are often given antibiotics empirically and unnecessarily. MxA is a protein induced in peripheral lymphoid cells by type 1 interferons during active viral infection. The ability of a whole blood ELISA assay for MxA to identify children with viral illness was studied in 122 children who presented with acute onset fever and 52 age-matched healthy controls. The febrile children were divided into three groups according to their final diagnoses: etiologically diagnosed viral infection, clinically diagnosed viral infection, and bacterial infection. MxA levels in the bacterial infection group and controls were similar and low (90.9 +/- 69.7 and 76.9 +/- 63.2 ng/mL, respectively). In contrast, mean MxA levels in the two viral infection groups were higher than in both the bacterial and control groups (719.2 +/- 386.4 and 827.0 +/- 651.1, respectively). A receiver operating characteristic analysis showed that the area under the curve of the MxA level was greater than under the curves of both the white blood cell count and the C-reactive protein concentration. Whole blood assay of MxA is a clinically useful tool for diagnosing viral illness in febrile children and should help |
DOI | 10.1203/01.pdr.0000246098.65888.5b |
PMID | 17065575 |