Niraj Shende
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences
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Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry | 2003
Swati Banerjee; Sonika Gupta; Niraj Shende; Satish Kumar; B. C. Harinath
Serodiagnosis by ELISA has been widely explored over the years, in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Two ELISA systems were evaluated for detection of mycobacterial antibodies in pulmonary and extra pulmonary tuberculosis. The two test assays explored were ERBA LISA (TB IgG) test (Anda Biologicals) which uses A60 antigen complex found in the cytosol of typical and atypical mycobacteria, and SEVA TB (IgG) ELISA, which uses a 31 kDa, glycoprotein antigen purified fromM. tb H37Ra culture filtrate. Sera from 98 proven tuberculosis [pulmonary TB (48), tuberculous lymphadenopathy (30), tuberculous meningitis (15) & genitourinary TB (5)] were studied along with 32 healthy controls. The overall positivity obtained using ERBA LISA (TB IgG) test and SEVA TB (IgG) ELISA test was 72.9% and 91.6% in pulmonary tuberculosis, 43.3% and 76.6% in tuberculous lymphadenopathy respectively. The sensitivity of ERBA LISA test in tuberculous meningitis and genito-urinary TB was significantly low (26.6% & 40% respectively) compared to sensitivity obtained using SEVA TB ELISA (86.6% & 60% respectively) with overall specificity of 60% and 87.5%. Thus SEVA TB IgG ELISA test was found to be more sensitive than ERBA LISA in detecting IgG antibodies in tuberculous sera, in particular in extra pulmonary tuberculosis cases.
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2008
Niraj Shende; Vijay Upadhye; Satish Kumar; B. C. Harinath
PURPOSE To determine role of antigens released in vivo and in vitro in immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). METHODS In vivo released circulating tuberculosis antigen (CTA) was obtained from TB sera by ammonium sulphate precipitation and in vitro released excretory-secretory (ES) antigens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture filtrate. CTA and ES antigens were fractionated by SDS-PAGE and electro-eluted gel fractions were analysed for antigen by ELISA. RESULTS Low molecular weight proteins CTA-9 and ES-9 showed high titre of antigen activity. To explore the diagnostic potential of low molecular weight ES antigen, M. tuberculosis ES antigen was further fractionated by gel filtration chromatography followed by purification on anion exchange column using fast protein liquid chromatography and a highly seroreactive ESG-5D (ES-20) antigen was obtained. Competitive inhibition showed that CTA-9 and ES-9 antigens inhibit the binding of ES-20 antigen to its antibody. Seroanalysis showed sensitivity of 83 and 80% for ES-20 antigen and antibody detection, respectively, in pulmonary TB and 90% in lymph node TB. CONCLUSIONS Seroreactivity studies using M. tuberculosis ES-20 antigen showed usefulness in detection of TB; in particular, lymph node TB.
Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry | 2002
Sonika Gupta; Niraj Shende; Swati Banerjee; Satish Kumar; M. V. R. Reddy; B. C. Harinath
Tuberculosis remains major health problem in India and developing countries Immunodiagnosis has important role in screening, diagnosis and management of tuberculosis. SEVA TB ES-31 antigen has shown potential in detecting tuberculous IgG antibody in earlier studies from our laboratory. In the present study we have analysedSEVA TB ES-31 antigen specific immunoglobulinsIgM, IgA and IgG in clinically and bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis cases to determine the usefulness of specific immunoglobulin class in the diagnosis of patients attending the hospital.Of the 30 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis 25 (83.3%) were positive for IgG, 19 (63.3%) for IgM and 16 (53.3%) for IgA. On combining IgG and IgM positivity, sensitivity was increased to 93.3%. While combining IgG and IgA positivity, sensitivity increased to 90%. However specificity was decreased to 66.6% and 70% for both of these combinations respectively. It could be envisaged from this study that IgG antibody detection against ES-31 antigen showed acceptable sensitivity (83.3%) and specificity (86.6%) compared to IgM or IgA alone or in combination. When immune responses were analysed according to degree of sputum positivity, IgG response was observed to be predominant in all grades, compared to IgM or IgA antibody. The addition of IgM or IgA as an adjunct test increases the sensitivity but at the cost of specificity. Hence the detection of IgG alone is more useful compared to IgM or IgA assay, in detecting tuberculosis disease cases coming to the hospital.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease | 2006
B. C. Harinath; Satish Kumar; Santa Saha Roy; Suvarna Hirudkar; Vijay Upadhye; Niraj Shende
Medical Science Monitor | 2005
Sonika Gupta; Niraj Shende; Amerjeet Singh Bhatia; Satish Kumar; Baskar C. Harinath
Current Science | 2005
Sonika Gupta; Niraj Shende; Satish Kumar; B. C. Harinath
Biomedical Research-tokyo | 2007
Vijay Upadhye; Niraj Shende; Satish Kumar; B. C. Harinath
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology | 2005
Santa Saha-Roy; Niraj Shende; Satish Kumar; B. C. Harinath
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology | 2007
Vijay Upadhye; Santa Saha-Roy; Niraj Shende; Satish Kumar; B. C. Harinath
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology | 2008
Niraj Shende; Sonika Gupta; Vijay Upadhye; Satish Kumar; B. C. Harinath