Abstract:
Objective To explore the etiological diagnostic value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA).
Methods 78 cases of suspected CPA patients admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University between September 2017 and September 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Samples were collected for traditional microbiological culture, serum Aspergillus fumigatus-specific antibody IgG analysis and mNGS, and the diagnostic performance of the three methods were compared. According to the diagnostic criteria, 78 patients with suspected CPA were divided into CPA group(35 cases) and non-CPA group(43 cases).
Results Compared with the final diagnosis, the sensitivity of mNGS, A. fumigatus-specific antibody IgG analysis and traditional culture method in the diagnosis of CPA were 65.7%, 48.6%, and 28.6%, respectively; and the specificity were 86.0%, 90.7%, and 93.0%, respectively. The sensitivity of mNGS was significantly higher than that of traditional culture method (P=0.001).The area under curve (AUC) of mNGS, A. fumigatus-specific antibody IgG analysis and traditional culture method were 0.759, 0.696, and 0.608, respectively.
Conclusions In the diagnosis of CPA, the sensitivity of mNGS is significantly higher than that of traditional culture method and A. fumigatus-specific antibody IgG analysis. At the same time, it has obvious advantages in detection time.