An integrated method for targeted Oxford Nanopore sequencing and automated bioinformatics for the simultaneous detection of bacteria, fungi, and ARG
JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY(2024)
摘要
Aims: The use of metagenomics for pathogen identification in clinical practice has been limited. Here we describe a workflow to encourage the clinical utility and potential of NGS for the screening of bacteria, fungi, and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs). Methods and results: The method includes target enrichment, long-read sequencing, and automated bioinformatics. Evaluation of several tools and databases was undertaken across standard organisms (n = 12), clinical isolates (n = 114), and blood samples from patients with suspected bloodstream infections (n = 33). The strategy used could offset the presence of host background DNA, error rates of long-read sequencing, and provide accurate and reproducible detection of pathogens. Eleven targets could be successfully tested in a single assay. Organisms could be confidently identified considering >= 60% of best hits of a BLAST-based threshold of e-value 0.001 and a percent identity of >80%. For ARGs, reads with percent identity of >90% and >60% overlap of the complete gene could be confidently annotated. A kappa of 0.83 was observed compared to standard diagnostic methods. Thus, a workflow for the direct-from-sample, on-site sequencing combined with automated genomics was demonstrated to be reproducible. Conclusion: NGS-based technologies overcome several limitations of current day diagnostics. Highly sensitive and comprehensive methods of pathogen screening are the need of the hour. We developed a framework for reliable, on-site, screening of pathogens.
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infectious disease,genomics,next-generation sequencing,nanopore sequencing,antibiotic resistance gene,bioinformatics,clinical genomics
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