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J Clin Microbiol. 1987 October; 25(10): 1837-1840

Detection of Pneumocystis carinii by fluorescent-antibody stain using a combination of three monoclonal antibodies.

Department of Clinical Pathology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

ABSTRACT

A combination of three monoclonal antibodies, two prepared against human and one against rat Pneumocystis carinii, was used in an indirect fluorescent-antibody stain (IFA) to diagnose P. carinii in both bronchoalveolar lavage and lung biopsy specimens. This combination of monoclonal antibodies was specific for P. carinii and yielded bright fluorescence of both P. carinii cysts and trophozoites. A total of 126 specimens from 93 patients were stained for P. carinii by a toluidine blue O stain and the monoclonal IFA. Forty-five (35.7%) of these were positive for P. carinii by toluidine blue O, and 43 (34.1%) were positive by IFA. There was 98.4% agreement between both methods, with no false-positive and two false-negative occurrences by IFA. An IFA procedure with monoclonal antibodies such as those used in these studies can provide a simple, fast, and sensitive method for diagnosing P. carinii pneumonia by microbiology laboratories.

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