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- Title
Clinical Metagenomics Is Increasingly Accurate and Affordable to Detect Enteric Bacterial Pathogens in Stool.
- Authors
Peterson, Christy-Lynn; Alexander, David; Chen, Julie Chih-Yu; Adam, Heather; Walker, Matthew; Ali, Jennifer; Forbes, Jessica; Taboada, Eduardo; Barker, Dillon O. R.; Graham, Morag; Knox, Natalie; Reimer, Aleisha R.
- Abstract
Stool culture is the gold standard method to diagnose enteric bacterial infections; however, many clinical laboratories are transitioning to syndromic multiplex PCR panels. PCR is rapid, accurate, and affordable, yet does not yield subtyping information critical for foodborne disease surveillance. A metagenomics-based stool testing approach could simultaneously provide diagnostic and public health information. Here, we evaluated shotgun metagenomics to assess the detection of common enteric bacterial pathogens in stool. We sequenced 304 stool specimens from 285 patients alongside routine diagnostic testing for Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., Shigella spp., and shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli. Five analytical approaches were assessed for pathogen detection: microbiome profiling, Kraken2, MetaPhlAn, SRST2, and KAT-SECT. Among analysis tools and databases compared, KAT-SECT analysis provided the best sensitivity and specificity for all pathogens tested compared to culture (91.2% and 96.2%, respectively). Where metagenomics detected a pathogen in culture-negative specimens, standard PCR was positive 85% of the time. The cost of metagenomics is approaching the current combined cost of PCR, reflex culture, and whole genome sequencing for pathogen detection and subtyping. As cost, speed, and analytics for single-approach metagenomics improve, it may be more routinely applied in clinical and public health laboratories.
- Subjects
METAGENOMICS; WHOLE genome sequencing; FOODBORNE diseases; ROUTINE diagnostic tests; INTESTINAL infections; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; SHIGELLOSIS; DEFECATION
- Publication
Microorganisms, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 2, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2076-2607
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/microorganisms10020441