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PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF ACCURACY AND CLINICAL UTILITY OF THE DUAL PATH PLATFORM (DPP) ASSAY FOR THE POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSIS OF LEPTOSPIROSIS IN HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS
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Harvard Medical School. Massachusetts General Hospital. Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics. Boston, United States of America / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven, United States of America
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven, United States of America
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven, United States of America
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Universidade Federal da Bahia. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven, United States of America
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven, United States of America
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven, United States of America
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Universidade Federal da Bahia. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Abstract
Early detection of leptospirosis with field-ready diagnostics may improve clinical management and mitigate outbreaks. We previously validated the point-of-care Dual Path Platform (DPP) for leptospirosis with sera in the laboratory. This prospective study compares the diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of the DPP using finger stick blood (FSB) against the serum DPP, venous whole blood (VWB) DPP, IgM-ELISA, and clinical impression. We sequentially enrolled 98 patients hospitalized for acute febrile illnesses, of which we confirmed 32 by leptospirosis reference tests. Among syndromes consistent with classic leptospirosis, the FSB DPP showed similar sensitivity and specificity (Se 93% and Sp 80%), and positive and negative predictive values (PPV 74% and NPV 95%), to VWB DPP (Se 96%, Sp 75%, PPV 68%, and NPV 97%), serum DPP (Se 85%, Sp 87%, PPV 79%, and NPV 91%) and IgM-ELISA (Se 81%, Sp 100%, PPV 100%, and NPV 90%). The FSB DPP provided a favorable likelihood ratio profile (positive LR 4.73, negative LR 0.09) in comparison to other assays and clinical impression alone. Additionally, we identified four of five leptospirosis-associated meningitis patients by whole blood DPP, none of which clinicians suspected. This demonstrates potential for the DPP in routine detection of this less common syndrome. The FSB DPP demonstrated similar discrimination for severe human leptospirosis compared with serum assays, and it is a simpler option for diagnosing leptospirosis. Its performance in other epidemiological settings and geographic regions, and for detecting atypical presentations, demands further evaluation.
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