For patients who received combination therapy with medium/high doses of corticosteroids, the T-SPOT.TB positive rate (p = 0.046) and CFP-10 spot number (p = 0.041) were increased after treatment, with no significant changes in the total number of spots or ESAT-6 spots.
An electrochemical aptamer-based assay is described for the determination of CFP-10 which is an early secretary biomarker of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Thus, as for IGRA assays such as Quantiferon and T-Spot TB tests, ESAT-6 and CFP-10 are unable to distinguish LTBI from active TB when IL-2 is measured.
Highest diagnostic accuracies for active TB (AUC ≥ 0.91) were achieved for: (i) CD27 within IFN-γ<sup>+</sup>TNF-α<sup>+</sup>CD4<sup>+</sup> T-cells in response to ESAT-6/CFP-10, (ii) CD27 and CCR4 markers together within IFN-γ<sup>+</sup>CD4<sup>+</sup> T-cells in response to PPD, and (iii) CD27 MFI ratio performed on IFN-γ<sup>+</sup>TNF-α<sup>+</sup>CD4<sup>+</sup> T-cells after ESAT-6/CFP-10 stimulation.
This method exhibits great application potential in the field of nanomedical science for highly reliable point-of-care detection of CFP-10 antigen in real samples to early diagnosis of tuberculosis.
This study confirms the high conservation for ESAT-6, CFP-10 and EspC in local M. bovis field isolates and reinforce the use of these three antigens in the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis.
Also, in this research, we proposed the incorporation of protein biomarker, Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESAT-6-like protein esxB (CFP-10), as a means of TB detection using plasmonic ELISA.
Here, we studied human pulmonary T-cell responses induced by the <i>M. tuberculosis</i>-specific antigen Rv3615c, a protein with a similar size and sequence homology to ESAT-6 and CFP-10, which induced dominant CD4<sup>+</sup> T-cell responses in human tuberculosis (TB) models.
CTL immunogenicity of Rv3615c antigen and diagnostic performances of an ESAT-6/CFP-10/Rv3615c antigen cocktail for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
These results suggest that serum CFP-10 quantitation holds great promise for the rapid diagnosis of suspected TB cases in patients who are HIV-infected.
Although BfrB is not as immunodominant as ESAT-6/CFP-10 during acute M.tb infection, comparable BfrB-specific cellular immune responses are observed in LTBI population with the potential to increase the sensitivity for LTBI screening.
These 2 antigens are good targets for tuberculosis (TB) detection.To rapidly diagnose TB across a variety of samples, we developed colloidal gold immunochromatographic strips (ICSs) based on ESAT-6 and CFP-10.The strips were evaluated using 233 samples, including sputum, plasma, and pleural effusion samples.The positive detection rates for ICSs for ESAT-6 and CFP-10 in sputum (culture-positive for M tuberculosis) were 100% and 91.2%, respectively.
In patients with positive ELISpot in pleural fluid (n = 16), the PPV for TB was 85.7%, which increased to 91.7% for the ESAT-6 panel and 92.3% for the CFP-10 panel after the introduction of a cut-off >1.0 for the ratio between the pleural fluid and blood interferon-gamma responses.
Multicolor flow cytometry analysis of whole-blood cultures showed higher Lpd-specific Th1 recall response (IFN-γ, TNF-α, and IL-2; <i>P</i> = 0.0006) and memory CD4<sup>+</sup> and CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells (CCR7<sup>+</sup> CD45RA<sup>-</sup> and CCR7<sup>-</sup> CD45RA<sup>-</sup>) in healthy household contacts (HHC) of TB (<i>P</i> < 0.0001), which is comparable with or higher than the standard antigens, ESAT-6 and CFP-10.
Our findings from a study of naturally infected human population suggest that IFN-γ, TNF-α and IL-10 against rESAT-6/CFP-10 are markers for clinical TB but not for protective immunity.
In this study, immunogenicity of a fusion protein which consisting or comprising CFP-10 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Fc-domain of mouse IgG2a was evaluated as a novel subunit vaccine candidate against TB.
Replacing Trp(55) (W55) or Gly(57) (G57) residues in the putative W-X-G motif of EspA with arginines impaired ESAT-6 and CFP-10 secretion in vitro and attenuated M. tuberculosis.
The sensitivity of the IgG test ranged from 69.4% (ESAT-6) to 77.6% (ESAT-6/14KD/38KD) in the active TB patients; the specificity of assays varied from 78.4% (CFP-10) to 90.2% (14KD+38KD) in the healthy control groups.
Our results demonstrated that significantly higher levels of polyfunctional CD4(+) T cells for the epitopes of ESAT-6 or CFP-10 in PFCs may play an important role in the local control of tuberculosis (TB) infection.
In order to identify immunodominant antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that may be used in the serodiagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB), we designed an M. tuberculosis fusion protein consisting of CFP-10 (10-kDa culture filtrate protein), ESAT-6 (6-kDa early secreted antigenic target), and the extracellular domain fragment of PPE68 (PPE68').