TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of ThermoFisher's Papspin for human papillomavirus detection in cervicovaginal specimens using PCR with GP5+/GP6+ primers and the Hybrid Capture II assay
AU - Weynand, B
AU - Delvenne, P
AU - Polet, R
AU - Guiot, Y
AU - Arafa, M
AU - Somja, J
AU - Galant, C
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - The present study aimed to validate ThermoFisher's (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Runcorn, Cheshire, UK) Papspin (PS) for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing by in-house PCR and by the Hybrid Capture II (HC2) assay and to compare the results with those obtained using Specimen Transport Medium (STM) (Digene Diagnostics, Gaithersburg, MD, USA). Forty-five patients underwent conization for known lesions ranging from atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US) with high-risk HPV (hr-HPV) to high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (H-SIL/CIN2+) or adenocarcinoma. Two negative controls were included: one patient with post-menopausal bleeding and another from whom an inflammatory cervical sample was taken without conization. Prior to conization, a gynaecologist collected two cervical samples, fixed in PS or STM, from each patient. All but four cases were tested for panHPV (GP5+/GP6+) and specific hr-HPV subtypes (HPV16, 18, 31,33) by PCR using both media and all were processed for HC2. This study demonstrates that both HPV detection techniques work with PS, showing a specificity of 78.3% for HC2 and 92.8% for PCR compared to 83.8% for HC2 and 92% for PCR using STM. The efficacy of detecting HPV in PS-preserved H-SIL/CIN2+ was very high (96% for PCR using PS and 86% for HC2 using PS), which was in the same range as for PCR using STM, and which was only slightly lower than for HC2 using STM (96% and 89%, respectively). The differences were not statistically significant. It is concluded that ThermoFisher's PS is a valid liquid-based cytology medium for cervical samples, convenient for HPV testing by PCR with GP5+/GP6+ primers and by the HC2 assay.
AB - The present study aimed to validate ThermoFisher's (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Runcorn, Cheshire, UK) Papspin (PS) for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing by in-house PCR and by the Hybrid Capture II (HC2) assay and to compare the results with those obtained using Specimen Transport Medium (STM) (Digene Diagnostics, Gaithersburg, MD, USA). Forty-five patients underwent conization for known lesions ranging from atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US) with high-risk HPV (hr-HPV) to high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (H-SIL/CIN2+) or adenocarcinoma. Two negative controls were included: one patient with post-menopausal bleeding and another from whom an inflammatory cervical sample was taken without conization. Prior to conization, a gynaecologist collected two cervical samples, fixed in PS or STM, from each patient. All but four cases were tested for panHPV (GP5+/GP6+) and specific hr-HPV subtypes (HPV16, 18, 31,33) by PCR using both media and all were processed for HC2. This study demonstrates that both HPV detection techniques work with PS, showing a specificity of 78.3% for HC2 and 92.8% for PCR compared to 83.8% for HC2 and 92% for PCR using STM. The efficacy of detecting HPV in PS-preserved H-SIL/CIN2+ was very high (96% for PCR using PS and 86% for HC2 using PS), which was in the same range as for PCR using STM, and which was only slightly lower than for HC2 using STM (96% and 89%, respectively). The differences were not statistically significant. It is concluded that ThermoFisher's PS is a valid liquid-based cytology medium for cervical samples, convenient for HPV testing by PCR with GP5+/GP6+ primers and by the HC2 assay.
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Cervix Uteri/virology
KW - DNA Primers/genetics
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Nucleic Acid Hybridization/methods
KW - Papillomaviridae/classification
KW - Papillomavirus Infections/diagnosis
KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
KW - Sensitivity and Specificity
KW - Specimen Handling/methods
KW - Virology/methods
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02943.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02943.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 19689463
SN - 1198-743X
VL - 16
SP - 671
EP - 675
JO - Clinical Microbiology and Infection
JF - Clinical Microbiology and Infection
IS - 6
ER -