Publication: Evaluation of a single-platform microcapillary flow cytometer for enumeration of absolute CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts in HIV-1 infected Thai patients
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2007-09-01
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15524949
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Mahidol University
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Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry. Vol.72, No.5 (2007), 387-396
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Kovit Pattanapanyasat, Yuwadee Phuang-Ngern, Surada Lerdwana, Punneeporn Wasinrapee, Natthaga Sakulploy, Egarit Noulsri, Charin Thepthai, Janet M. McNicholl Evaluation of a single-platform microcapillary flow cytometer for enumeration of absolute CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts in HIV-1 infected Thai patients. Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry. Vol.72, No.5 (2007), 387-396. doi:10.1002/cyto.b.20167 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/24133
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Evaluation of a single-platform microcapillary flow cytometer for enumeration of absolute CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts in HIV-1 infected Thai patients
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Background: Various assays are used to enumerate peripheral blood absolute CD4+ T-lymphocytes. Flow cytometry is considered the gold standard for this purpose. However, the high cost of available flow cytometers and monoclonal antibody reagents make it difficult to implement such methods in the resource-poor settings. In this study, we evaluated a cheaper, recently developed single-platform microcapillary cytometer for CD4+ T-lymphocyte enumeration, the personal cell analyzer (PCA), from Guava® Technologies. Methods: CD4+ and CD8+ T-lymphocyte counts in whole blood samples from 250 HIV-1 infected Thais were determined, using a two-color reagent kit and the Guava PCA, and compared with the results obtained with two reference microbead-based methods from Becton Dickinson Biosciences: the three-color TruCOUNT™ tube method and the two-color FACSCount™ method. Statistical correlations and agreements were determined using linear correlation and Bland-Altman analysis. Results: Absolute CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts obtained using the Guava PCA method highly correlated with those obtained using TruCOUNT method (R2 = 0.95, mean bias +13.1 cells/μl, limit of agreement [LOA] -117.9 to +144.1 cells/μl) and the FACSCount method (R2 = 0.94, mean bias = +33.2 cells/μl, LOA -101.8 to +168.3 cells/μl). Absolute CD8+ T-lymphocyte counts obtained using the Guava PCA method also highly correlated with those obtained with the two reference methods (R2 = 0.92 and 0.88, respectively). Conclusion: This study shows that the enumeration of CD4+ T-lymphocytes using the Guava microcapillary cytometer PCA method performed well when compared with the two reference bead-based methods. However, like the two reference methods, this new method needs substantial technical expertise. © 2007 Clinical Cytometry Society.