Assessment of JC virus DNA in blood and urine from natalizumab-treated patients.
Summary of "Assessment of JC virus DNA in blood and urine from natalizumab-treated patients."
OBJECTIVE:
Analyses were conducted to determine the clinical utility of measuring JC virus (JCV) DNA in blood or urine of natalizumab-treated multiple sclerosis (MS) patients to predict the risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
METHODS:
A total of 12,850 blood and urine samples from nearly 1,400 patients participating in natalizumab clinical trials were tested for JCV DNA using a commercially available quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay. A subset of these samples was also tested using a more sensitive qPCR assay developed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
RESULTS:
At the time natalizumab dosing was suspended, JCV DNA was detected in plasma by the commercial assay in 4 of 1,397 (0.3%) patients; the NIH assay confirmed these positive samples and detected JCV DNA in an additional 2 of 205 (1%) patients who tested negative with the commercial assay. None of these 6 JCV DNA positive patients developed PML. In a 48-week study testing the safety of natalizumab redosing, JCV DNA was detected in plasma of 6 of 1,094 (0.3%) patients, none of whom developed PML. Urine at baseline and week 48 was assessed in 224 patients; 58 (26%) were positive at baseline, and 55 (25%) were positive after 48 weeks of natalizumab, treatment. JCV DNA was not detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from any of these 1,094 patients before or after natalizumab treatment. In 5 patients who developed PML, JCV DNA was not detected in blood at any time point before symptoms first occurred.
INTERPRETATION:
Measuring JCV DNA in blood or urine with currently available methods is unlikely to be useful for predicting PML risk in natalizumab-treated MS patients. Ann Neurol 2010.
Affiliation
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Annals of neurology
ISSN: 1531-8249
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Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20737514
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ana.22107
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