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Metagenomic sequencing complements routine diagnostics in identifying viral pathogens in lung transplant recipients with unknown etiology of respiratory infection

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026756

Type of Spiritual Experience

Background

A description of the experience

PLoS One. 2017 May 23;12(5):e0177340. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177340. eCollection 2017.

Metagenomic sequencing complements routine diagnostics in identifying viral pathogens in lung transplant recipients with unknown etiology of respiratory infection.

Lewandowska DW1, Schreiber PW2, Schuurmans MM3, Ruehe B1, Zagordi O1, Bayard C2, Greiner M2, Geissberger FD1, Capaul R1, Zbinden A1, Böni J1, Benden C3, Mueller NJ2, Trkola A1, Huber M1.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Lung transplant patients are a vulnerable group of immunosuppressed patients that are prone to frequent respiratory infections. We studied 60 episodes of respiratory symptoms in 71 lung transplant patients. Almost half of these episodes were of unknown infectious etiology despite extensive routine diagnostic testing.

METHODS:

We re-analyzed respiratory samples of all episodes with undetermined etiology in order to detect potential viral pathogens missed/not accounted for in routine diagnostics. Respiratory samples were enriched for viruses by filtration and nuclease digestion, whole nucleic acids extracted and randomly amplified before high throughput metagenomic virus sequencing. Viruses were identified by a bioinformatic pipeline and confirmed and quantified using specific real-time PCR.

RESULTS:

In completion of routine diagnostics, we identified and confirmed a viral etiology of infection by our metagenomic approach in four patients (three Rhinovirus A, one Rhinovirus B infection) despite initial negative results in specific multiplex PCR. Notably, the majority of samples were also positive for Torque teno virus (TTV) and Human Herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7). While TTV viral loads increased with immunosuppression in both throat swabs and blood samples, HHV-7 remained at low levels throughout the observation period and was restricted to the respiratory tract.

CONCLUSION:

This study highlights the potential of metagenomic sequencing for virus diagnostics in cases with previously unknown etiology of infection and in complex diagnostic situations such as in immunocompromised hosts.

PMID:

28542207

PMCID:

PMC5441588

DOI:

10.1371/journal.pone.0177340

The source of the experience

PubMed

Concepts, symbols and science items

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Science Items

Metagenomic testing

Activities and commonsteps

Activities

Overloads

Lung disease
Viral infection

Suppressions

Organ transplantation

Commonsteps

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