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A new tool in the field of in-vitro diagnosis of allergy: preliminary results in the comparison of ImmunoCAP© 250 with the ImmunoCAP© ISAC

  • Romy Gadisseur EMAIL logo , Jean-Paul Chapelle and Etienne Cavalier
Published/Copyright: December 14, 2010

Abstract

Background: The ImmunoCAP© ISAC allows for the determination of specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) against 103 recombinant or purified allergen components in a single analytical step. The aim of our study was to perform a comparison of the specific IgE results measured with the microarray method to those obtained using the traditional method of ImmunoCAP©.

Methods: We selected 86 clinically relevant patients on the basis of their specific IgE for recombinant allergens (ImmunoCAP© 250, Phadia). Also, we selected two patients with a high total IgE to evaluate the non-specific binding of IgE. All samples were screened with the ImmunoCAP© ISAC. Then, we compared the 555 specific IgE antibodies results provided by ImmunoCAP© ISAC with the specific IgE levels obtained with ImmunoCAP© 250.

Results: We observed that 82 of the 384 results found to be positive with ImmunoCAP© were negative with ISAC© (concordance 78.65%). Of 171 negative results obtained with ImmunoCAP©, 11 were positive with ISAC© (concordance 93.57%). No non-specific binding was observed.

Conclusions: Our results show that the ImmunoCAP© ISAC has good analytical performance when compared with the ImmunoCAP© 250 method. We did not observe any non-specific binding. However, better sensitivity for some clinically relevant allergen components, such as rPru p 3 is needed.


Corresponding author: Romy Gadisseur, Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital of Liège, Domaine du Sart-Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium Phone: +32(0)4 366 76 65, Fax: +32(0)4 366 73 92

Received: 2010-3-9
Accepted: 2010-8-17
Published Online: 2010-12-14
Published in Print: 2011-02-01

©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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