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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 1999, p. 74-80, Vol. 37, No. 1
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Multicenter Evaluation of the Fully Automated COBAS AMPLICOR PCR Test for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in Urogenital Specimens

Jean Vincelette,1,* Jurjen Schirm,2 Marc Bogard,3 Anne-Marie Bourgault,1 Dirk S. Luijt,2 Anne Bianchi,4 Pieter C. van Voorst Vader,5 Ann Butcher,6 and Maurice Rosenstraus6

Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Campus Saint-Luc, Montréal, Canada1; Regional Public Health Laboratory,2 and Department of Dermatology, University Hospital,5 Groningen, The Netherlands; Unité de Biologie Moléculaire, Centre Hospitalier de Meaux, Meaux,3 and Laboratoire de Virologie, Institut Alfred Fournier, Paris,4 France; and Roche Molecular Systems, Branchburg, New Jersey6

Received 26 June 1998/Returned for modification 3 August 1998/Accepted 2 October 1998

The fully automated COBAS AMPLICOR CT/NG test for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis was evaluated in a multicenter trial. Test performance was evaluated for 2,014 endocervical swab and 1,278 urine specimens obtained from women and for 373 urethral swab and 254 urine specimens obtained from men. Culture served as the reference test. Culture-negative, COBAS AMPLICOR-positive specimens that tested positive in a confirmatory PCR test for an alternative target sequence within the C. trachomatis major outer membrane protein gene were resolved as true positives. The overall prevalence of chlamydia was 4.3% in cervical swabs and 11.0% in urethral swabs from men. When the results for each specimen type were considered separately, the resolved sensitivities were 96.5% (83 of 86) for endocervical swab specimens, 95.1% (39 of 41) for urine specimens from women, 100.0% (41 of 41) for urethral swab specimens from men, and 94.4% (17 of 18) for urine specimens from men; the resolved specificities were 99.4% (1,912 of 1,924) for endocervical swab specimens, 99.8% (1,204 of 1,207) for urine specimens from women, 98.5% (325 of 330) for urethral swab specimens from men, and 100.0% (236 of 236) for urine specimens from men. For the subset of patients from whom both swab and urine specimens were collected, the combined results for both specimen types were used to identify all infected patients. Using these combined reslts as criteria, the resolved sensitivities for the COBAS AMPLICOR test were 82.6% (38 of 46) for endocervical swab specimens, 84.4% (38 of 45) for urine specimens from women, 84.2% (16 of 19) for urethral swab specimens from men, and 89.5% (17 of 19) for urine specimens from men. In comparison, the sensitivity of culture was only 56.5% (26 of 46) for endocervical specimens and 63.2% (12 of 19) for urethral specimens from men. The internal control provided in the COBAS AMPLICOR test revealed that 2.9% of specimens were inhibitory when they were initially tested. Nevertheless, valid results were obtained for 99.1% of specimens because 68.7% of the inhibitory specimens were not inhibitory when a second aliquot of the original sample was tested. Two additional COBAS AMPLICOR-positive specimens were detected by retesting inhibitory specimens. The COBAS AMPLICOR CT/NG test for the detection of C. trachomatis exhibited equally high sensitivities and specificities with both urogenital swab and urine specimens and, thus, is well-suited for use in screening.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Département de Microbiologie Médicale et Infectiologie, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Campus Saint-Luc, 1058 Saint-Denis, Montréal, Québec, Canada H2X 3J4. Phone: (514) 281-2100. Fax: (514) 281-2443. E-mail: vincelej{at}magellan.umontreal.ca.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 1999, p. 74-80, Vol. 37, No. 1
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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