Culture-independent analysis of liver abscess using nanopore sequencing.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-9-2018

JAX Source

PLoS One 2018 Jan 9; 13(1):e0190853

Volume

13

Issue

1

First Page

0190853

Last Page

0190853

ISSN

1932-6203

PMID

29315344

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190853

Abstract

The identification of microbial species has depended predominantly upon culture-based techniques. However, the difficulty with which types of organisms are cultured implies that the grown species may be overrepresented by both cultivation and plate counts. In recent years, culture-independent analysis using high-throughput sequencing has been advocated for use as a point-of-care diagnostic tool. Although it offers a rapid and unbiased survey to characterize the pathogens in clinical specimens, its accuracy is reduced by the high level of contamination of human DNA. In this paper, we propose using a culture-independent analysis for a Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical strain within a liver abscess using nanopore sequencing. Owing to the highly-contaminated cell population within a liver abscess, we managed to reduce the confounding effects of human DNA through the use of DNase and differential centrifugation. Genomic DNA was sequenced through the use of Nanopore MinION sequencer and analyzed using a suite of bioinformatics approaches. K. pneumoniae was successfully identified along with antibiotic-resistant genes. Our results indicate that, by integrating real-time nanopore sequencing and bioinformatics software, real-time pathogen identification in a liver abscess can be achieved. PLoS One 2018 Jan 9; 13(1):e0190853.

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