Review Article

Opportunities for Improved Serodiagnosis of Human Tuberculosis, Bovine Tuberculosis, and Paratuberculosis

Table 1

Summary of humoral immune response based assays.

Target antigenMTB/MB/MAPMethod of testingSe (%)Sp (%)PNSpecies testedReference

PPDMTBELISA89871883Human[24, 25]
PPDMBELISA68–9596–99120223Cattle[26, 27]
PPDMAPELISA29–72993592094Cattle[28, 29]
Antigen 5 (38 kDa)MTBELISA8994–1008230Human[30, 31]
Cord factorMTBELISA81–8496–1006566Human[32, 33]
ESAT-6MTBELISA6751100100Human[34, 35]
ESAT-6MBELISA49–5984–955221489Cattle[3638]
ESAT-6MBMAPIA6798998Deer
CFP-10MTBELISA48–6351–71100100Human[34, 39, 40]
CFP-10MBELISA49–5984–955221489Cattle[3638]
CFP-10MBMAPIA5699998Deer
Kp90MTBELISA78825171Human[41]
Antigen 60MTBELISA68–91100337131Human[42, 43]
30 kDa antigenMTBELISA8496.7175150Human[44, 45]
LAMMTBELISA17.887.747153Human[27, 4649]
LAMMBELISA60na120Cattle
LAMMAPELISA6688167216Cattle
MSMTBELISA73–7597-983517Human[5052]
MPT51MTBELISA80na53Human[51]
MPB70MBELISA7388120223Cattle[27, 3638, 53]
MPB70MBMAPIA44100998Deer
Antigen 85 complexMBELISA488920854Cattle[54, 55]
MPB 83MBELISA49–5984–955221489Cattle[36, 53, 56]
MPB83MBMAPIA8999998Deer[3638, 53, 56, 57]
MPB83MBRT60962525Cattle
MAP proteins 0862 and 3786MAPELISA81na11Sheep[58]
Ethanol extractMAPELISA97.41006438Cattle[5962]
JTCMAPELISA56.399444412Cattle[63]

Se, Sensitivity; Sp, Specificity; P, no. of positive samples tested; N, no. of negative samples tested.