JAC Advance Access originally published online on April 10, 2008
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2008 62(1):56-64; doi:10.1093/jac/dkn139
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The nitrate reductase assay for the rapid detection of isoniazid and rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
1 Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 2 Médecins sans Frontières, Paris, France 3 Department of Microbiology, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria 4 Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden 5 Karolinska University Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
Received 17 January 2008; returned 19 February 2008; revised 8 March 2008; accepted 9 March 2008
* Correspondence address. Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, Antwerpen B-2000, Belgium. Tel: +32-3-2476334; Fax: +32-3-2476333; E-mail: amartin{at}itg.be
Objectives: The reference standard methods for drug susceptibility testing (DST) of M. tuberculosis are very slow to give results, and due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, there is an urgent demand for new, rapid and accurate DST methods, particularly in low-income countries. The nitrate reductase assay (NRA) has been proposed as a rapid method for the detection of resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid, but its accuracy has not been systematically evaluated.
Methods: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the accuracy of the NRA for the detection of rifampicin- and isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis. We searched Medline PubMed (NCBI), Global Health-CAB, EJS-E (EbscoHost), ISI Web, Web of Science and IFCC and contacted authors if additional information was required. Fifteen studies met our inclusion criteria for rifampicin resistance detection and 13 for isoniazid. Of these, the majority of the studies used culture isolates on solid medium, four used culture isolates on liquid medium and three used sputum samples. We applied the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve to perform meta-analysis and to summarize diagnostic accuracy.
Results: For rifampicin, the majority of the studies that applied NRA to isolates had a sensitivity and specificity >94% and for isoniazid, >92%. The three studies that applied NRA directly on sputum samples had a sensitivity and specificity that ranged between 88% and 100%. The SROC curve had an area of >0.99 for both drugs.
Conclusions: There is evidence that NRA is highly sensitive and specific for the rapid detection of rifampicin and isoniazid resistance in culture isolates. More evidence is required for the NRA applied directly on sputum samples, but preliminary results appear promising and show a good sensitivity and specificity. Additional studies are required in countries with a high prevalence of MDR-TB and also cost-effectiveness analysis in order to obtain a complete picture on the utility of this method for rapid drug resistance detection in tuberculosis.
Keywords: drug resistance , M. tuberculosis , drug susceptibility testing
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