ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Immunology
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1607857
The diagnostic value of lymphocyte profiling for infectious mononucleosis and mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia
Provisionally accepted
- Suqian Hospital, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Suqian City, China
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Background: Infectious mononucleosis (IM) and mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) are common pediatric diseases that can easily trigger immune responses. This study aims to detect peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets through flow cytometry and explore the diagnostic value in IM and MPP. Methods: This retrospective study using electronic medical records included a total of 86 children with IM, 150 children with MPP, and 120 healthy volunteers. Lymphocyte subsets in peripheral blood were quantitatively detected by flow cytometry, covering lymphocyte ratio, CD8+, CD4+, CD3+, CD4/CD8, CD19, and CD16+cells. The diagnostic value of these markers was analyzed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Results: Compared with the HC and IM groups, the MPP group had a significantly lower lymphocyte ratio (P<0.01). In the MPP group, CD8+ and CD3+ lymphocyte proportions were significantly reduced (P<0.01), while CD4+/CD8+ ratio, CD4+ and CD19+ B cell levels were significantly higher than those of the IM and HC groups (P<0.01). In the comparison between MPP and IM, ROC analysis showed that CD3+ T cells (AUC=0.931), CD3+CD8+ T cells (AUC=0.989), CD4/CD8 ratio (AUC=0.996), CD3+CD4+ T cells (AUC=0.992), lymphocyte ratio (AUC=0.925), and CD19+ B cells (AUC=0.978) all had excellent diagnostic value. Conclusion: Peripheral blood lymphocyte subset analysis could serve as a precise and efficient diagnostic tool to directly distinguish between MPP and IM.
Keywords: Lymphocyte Subsets, infectious mononucleosis (IM), Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP), Cd4/cd8, ROC
Received: 08 Apr 2025; Accepted: 21 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Shen, Li, Qi, Zhong, Zhang, Sun, Shi, Zhang and Su. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Liang Zhang, Suqian Hospital, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Suqian City, China
Jing Su, Suqian Hospital, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Suqian City, China
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