ObjectiveTo systematically review the diagnosis value of T cell ELISA Spot (T-SOPT.TB) in for bacterium negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese.
MethodsWe electronically searched databases including PubMed, CBM, CNKI, WanFang Data and VIP from inception to December 31st, 2015 to collect studies about T-SPOT.TB in diagnosis bacterium negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese. Two researchers independently screened literatures, extracted data, and assessed the risk of bias of included studies, and then meta-analysis was performed by using Stata 12.1 and Meta-DiSc 1.4 software.
ResultsA total of 11 studies including 1 413 patients and 1 256 controls were included. The results of meta-analysis showed that the pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio, negative likelihood ratio, diagnosis odds ratio and area under SROC curve for T-SPOT.TB diagnosis bacterium negative pulmonary tuberculosis was 83% (95%CI 0.81 to 0.85), 86% (95%CI 0.84 to 0.88), 5.73 (95%CI 4.99 to 6.59), 0.20 (95%CI 0.18 to 0.23), 31.09 (95%CI 25.11 to 38.49), and 0.92, respectively.
ConclusionAs a rapid and accurate method for diagnosis of bacterium negative pulmonary tuberculosis, T-SPOT.TB has a high diagnostic efficiency for bacterium negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese.
