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Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children
The performance of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in identifying pathogens in immunocompromised children was not very clear. The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of mNGS in this population and to investigate whether the integration of serum cytokines and mNGS assay c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982073/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35391735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.819467 |
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author | Wang, Di Lai, Min Song, Hua Zhang, Jing-Ying Zhao, Fen-Ying Liang, Juan Xu, Wei-Qun Tang, Yong-Min Xu, Xiao-Jun |
author_facet | Wang, Di Lai, Min Song, Hua Zhang, Jing-Ying Zhao, Fen-Ying Liang, Juan Xu, Wei-Qun Tang, Yong-Min Xu, Xiao-Jun |
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description | The performance of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in identifying pathogens in immunocompromised children was not very clear. The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of mNGS in this population and to investigate whether the integration of serum cytokines and mNGS assay could improve diagnostic accuracy. We retrospectively collected the clinical data of pediatric patients who suffered febrile diseases and underwent mNGS determination simultaneously in the department of hematology/oncology between January 2019 and March 2021. Specimens were sent for conventional microbiological test (CMT), mNGS, and serum cytokine measurement in parallel. A total of 258 episodes of febrile diseases were enrolled, mNGS was positive in 224 cases, while CMT was positive in 78 cases. mNGS and CMT were both positive in 70 (27.1%) cases and were both negative in 26 (10.1%) cases. There were 154 (59.7%) cases positive by mNGS only while 8 (3.1%) were positive by CMT only. It was common that two or more pathogens were simultaneously detected by mNGS in a single specimen, with only 61 tests identified a single organism. Whether the organisms reported by mNGS were the microbiological etiology of infection was evaluated. Of the 224 cases with positive mNGS results, 135 (58.4%), 30 (13.0%), and 59 (28.6%) were considered as “probable,” “possible,” and “unlikely,” respectively. Patients with high IL-6 (≥ 390 pg/ml) were likely to be bacterial infection. Although mNGS reported mixed pathogens, 84.6% (33/39) and 83.3% (10/12) of patients presenting high IL-6 were confirmed as bacterial infection in the training and validation cohort, respectively. In conclusion, mNGS analysis demonstrates promising diagnostic potential in rapidly identifying clinically relevant pathogens. Given the detection of many clinically irrelevant organisms, the integration of IL-6 improves the precision of mNGS results interpretation. |
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spelling | pubmed-89820732022-04-06 Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children Wang, Di Lai, Min Song, Hua Zhang, Jing-Ying Zhao, Fen-Ying Liang, Juan Xu, Wei-Qun Tang, Yong-Min Xu, Xiao-Jun Front Microbiol Microbiology The performance of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in identifying pathogens in immunocompromised children was not very clear. The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of mNGS in this population and to investigate whether the integration of serum cytokines and mNGS assay could improve diagnostic accuracy. We retrospectively collected the clinical data of pediatric patients who suffered febrile diseases and underwent mNGS determination simultaneously in the department of hematology/oncology between January 2019 and March 2021. Specimens were sent for conventional microbiological test (CMT), mNGS, and serum cytokine measurement in parallel. A total of 258 episodes of febrile diseases were enrolled, mNGS was positive in 224 cases, while CMT was positive in 78 cases. mNGS and CMT were both positive in 70 (27.1%) cases and were both negative in 26 (10.1%) cases. There were 154 (59.7%) cases positive by mNGS only while 8 (3.1%) were positive by CMT only. It was common that two or more pathogens were simultaneously detected by mNGS in a single specimen, with only 61 tests identified a single organism. Whether the organisms reported by mNGS were the microbiological etiology of infection was evaluated. Of the 224 cases with positive mNGS results, 135 (58.4%), 30 (13.0%), and 59 (28.6%) were considered as “probable,” “possible,” and “unlikely,” respectively. Patients with high IL-6 (≥ 390 pg/ml) were likely to be bacterial infection. Although mNGS reported mixed pathogens, 84.6% (33/39) and 83.3% (10/12) of patients presenting high IL-6 were confirmed as bacterial infection in the training and validation cohort, respectively. In conclusion, mNGS analysis demonstrates promising diagnostic potential in rapidly identifying clinically relevant pathogens. Given the detection of many clinically irrelevant organisms, the integration of IL-6 improves the precision of mNGS results interpretation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8982073/ /pubmed/35391735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.819467 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wang, Lai, Song, Zhang, Zhao, Liang, Xu, Tang and Xu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Wang, Di Lai, Min Song, Hua Zhang, Jing-Ying Zhao, Fen-Ying Liang, Juan Xu, Wei-Qun Tang, Yong-Min Xu, Xiao-Jun Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children |
title | Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children |
title_full | Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children |
title_fullStr | Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children |
title_short | Integration of Interleukin-6 Improves the Diagnostic Precision of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infection in Immunocompromised Children |
title_sort | integration of interleukin-6 improves the diagnostic precision of metagenomic next-generation sequencing for infection in immunocompromised children |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982073/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35391735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.819467 |
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