Evaluating the potential for respiratory metagenomics to improve treatment of secondary infection and detection of nosocomial transmission on expanded COVID-19 intensive care units

Background Clinical metagenomics (CMg) has the potential to be translated from a research tool into routine service to improve antimicrobial treatment and infection control decisions. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provides added impetus to realise these benefits, given the increased risk of secondary infection and nosocomial transmission of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) pathogens linked with the expansion of critical care capacity. Methods CMg using nanopore sequencing was evaluated in a proof-of-concept study on 43 respiratory samples from 34 intubated patients across seven intensive care units (ICUs) over a 9-week period during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave. Results An 8-h CMg workflow was 92% sensitive (95% CI, 75–99%) and 82% specific (95% CI, 57–96%) for bacterial identification based on culture-positive and culture-negative samples, respectively. CMg sequencing reported the presence or absence of β-lactam-resistant genes carried by Enterobacterales that would modify the initial guideline-recommended antibiotics in every case. CMg was also 100% concordant with quantitative PCR for detecting Aspergillus fumigatus from 4 positive and 39 negative samples. Molecular typing using 24-h sequencing data identified an MDR-K. pneumoniae ST307 outbreak involving 4 patients and an MDR-C. striatum outbreak involving 14 patients across three ICUs. Conclusion CMg testing provides accurate pathogen detection and antibiotic resistance prediction in a same-day laboratory workflow, with assembled genomes available the next day for genomic surveillance. The provision of this technology in a service setting could fundamentally change the multi-disciplinary team approach to managing ICU infections. The potential to improve the initial targeted treatment and rapidly detect unsuspected outbreaks of MDR-pathogens justifies further expedited clinical assessment of CMg..

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

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Genome medicine - 13(2021), 1 vom: 17. Nov.

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Englisch

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Charalampous, Themoula [VerfasserIn]
Alcolea-Medina, Adela [VerfasserIn]
Snell, Luke B. [VerfasserIn]
Williams, Tom G. S. [VerfasserIn]
Batra, Rahul [VerfasserIn]
Alder, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
Telatin, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Camporota, Luigi [VerfasserIn]
Meadows, Christopher I. S. [VerfasserIn]
Wyncoll, Duncan [VerfasserIn]
Barrett, Nicholas A. [VerfasserIn]
Hemsley, Carolyn J. [VerfasserIn]
Bryan, Lisa [VerfasserIn]
Newsholme, William [VerfasserIn]
Boyd, Sara E. [VerfasserIn]
Green, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Mahadeva, Ula [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Amita [VerfasserIn]
Cliff, Penelope R. [VerfasserIn]
Page, Andrew J. [VerfasserIn]
O’Grady, Justin [VerfasserIn]
Edgeworth, Jonathan D. [VerfasserIn]

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10.1186/s13073-021-00991-y

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OLC2128489113