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Published on: January 7, 2019
Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1: a biomarker for bacterial meningitis
Rogier M Determann1, Martijn Weisfelt, Jan de Gans
1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Objective:
To evaluate whether soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (sTREM-1) in CSF can serve as a biomarker for the presence of bacterial meningitis and outcome in patients with this disease.
Design:
Retrospective study of diagnostic accuracy.
Setting And Patients:
CSF was collected from 92 adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis who participated in the prospective Dutch Meningitis Cohort Study; 8 patients with viral meningitis and 9 healthy control subjects.
Results:
CSF sTREM-1 levels were higher in patients with bacterial meningitis (median 82 pg/ml, range 0-988) than in those with viral meningitis (0 pg/ml, 0-48) and controls (0 pg/ml, 0-36). The diagnostic accuracy of sTREM-1 in discriminating between patients with and without bacterial meningitis, expressed as the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, was 0.82. At a cutoff level of 20 pg/ml the sensitivity was 0.73 and specificity 0.77. In patients with bacterial meningitis CSF sTREM-1 levels were associated with mortality (survivors, median 73 pg/ml, range 0-449 pg/ml; nonsurvivors, 15 pg/ml, 0-988).
Conclusions:
Measuring sTREM-1 in CSF may be a valuable new additional approach to accurately diagnose bacterial meningitis and identify patients at high risk for adverse outcome. Therefore a prospective study of sTREM-1 as a biomarker in bacterial meningitis is needed.
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