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The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria that cannot be identified at the species level represent a challenge for clinical laboratories, as proper species assignment is key to implementing successful treatments or epidemiological studies. We re-identified forty-eight isolates of Ziehl–Neelsen (ZN)-staining-posi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9610484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36297216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11101159 |
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author | Ledesma, Yanua Echeverría, Gustavo Claro-Almea, Franklin E. Silva, Douglas Guerrero-Freire, Salomé Rojas, Yeimy Bastidas-Caldes, Carlos Navarro, Juan Carlos de Waard, Jacobus H. |
author_facet | Ledesma, Yanua Echeverría, Gustavo Claro-Almea, Franklin E. Silva, Douglas Guerrero-Freire, Salomé Rojas, Yeimy Bastidas-Caldes, Carlos Navarro, Juan Carlos de Waard, Jacobus H. |
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description | Non-tuberculous mycobacteria that cannot be identified at the species level represent a challenge for clinical laboratories, as proper species assignment is key to implementing successful treatments or epidemiological studies. We re-identified forty-eight isolates of Ziehl–Neelsen (ZN)-staining-positive “acid-fast bacilli” (AFB), which were isolated in a clinical laboratory and previously identified as Mycobacterium species but were unidentifiable at the species level with the hsp65 PCR restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PRA). As most isolates also could not be identified confidently via 16S, hsp65, or rpoB DNA sequencing and a nBLAST search analysis, we employed a phylogenetic method for their identification using the sequences of the 16S rDNA, which resulted in the identification of most AFB and a Mycobacterium species diversity not found before in our laboratory. Most were rare species with only a few clinical reports. Moreover, although selected with the ZN staining as AFB, not all isolates belonged to the genus Mycobacterium, and we report for the first time in Latin America the isolation of Nocardia puris, Tsukamurella pulmosis, and Gordonia sputi from sputum samples of symptomatic patients. We conclude that ZN staining does not differentiate between the genus Mycobacterium and other genera of AFB. Moreover, there is a need for a simple and more accurate tree-based identification method for mycobacterial species. For this purpose, and in development in our lab, is a web-based identification system using a phylogenetic analysis (including all AFB genera) based on 16S rDNA sequences (and in the future multigene datasets) and the closest relatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-96104842022-10-28 The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera Ledesma, Yanua Echeverría, Gustavo Claro-Almea, Franklin E. Silva, Douglas Guerrero-Freire, Salomé Rojas, Yeimy Bastidas-Caldes, Carlos Navarro, Juan Carlos de Waard, Jacobus H. Pathogens Article Non-tuberculous mycobacteria that cannot be identified at the species level represent a challenge for clinical laboratories, as proper species assignment is key to implementing successful treatments or epidemiological studies. We re-identified forty-eight isolates of Ziehl–Neelsen (ZN)-staining-positive “acid-fast bacilli” (AFB), which were isolated in a clinical laboratory and previously identified as Mycobacterium species but were unidentifiable at the species level with the hsp65 PCR restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PRA). As most isolates also could not be identified confidently via 16S, hsp65, or rpoB DNA sequencing and a nBLAST search analysis, we employed a phylogenetic method for their identification using the sequences of the 16S rDNA, which resulted in the identification of most AFB and a Mycobacterium species diversity not found before in our laboratory. Most were rare species with only a few clinical reports. Moreover, although selected with the ZN staining as AFB, not all isolates belonged to the genus Mycobacterium, and we report for the first time in Latin America the isolation of Nocardia puris, Tsukamurella pulmosis, and Gordonia sputi from sputum samples of symptomatic patients. We conclude that ZN staining does not differentiate between the genus Mycobacterium and other genera of AFB. Moreover, there is a need for a simple and more accurate tree-based identification method for mycobacterial species. For this purpose, and in development in our lab, is a web-based identification system using a phylogenetic analysis (including all AFB genera) based on 16S rDNA sequences (and in the future multigene datasets) and the closest relatives. MDPI 2022-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9610484/ /pubmed/36297216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11101159 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ledesma, Yanua Echeverría, Gustavo Claro-Almea, Franklin E. Silva, Douglas Guerrero-Freire, Salomé Rojas, Yeimy Bastidas-Caldes, Carlos Navarro, Juan Carlos de Waard, Jacobus H. The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera |
title | The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera |
title_full | The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera |
title_fullStr | The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera |
title_full_unstemmed | The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera |
title_short | The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera |
title_sort | re-identification of previously unidentifiable clinical non-tuberculous mycobacterial isolates shows great species diversity and the presence of other acid-fast genera |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9610484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36297216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11101159 |
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