Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis
Staphylococcus epidermidis is an important cause of nosocomial infection and bacteremia. It is also a common contaminant of blood cultures and, as a result, there is frequently uncertainty as to its diagnostic significance when recovered in the clinical laboratory. One molecular strategy that might...
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| description | Staphylococcus epidermidis is an important cause of nosocomial infection and bacteremia. It is also a common contaminant of blood cultures and, as a result, there is frequently uncertainty as to its diagnostic significance when recovered in the clinical laboratory. One molecular strategy that might be of value in clarifying the interpretation of S. epidermidis identified in blood culture is multilocus sequence typing. Here, we examined 100 isolates of this species (50 blood isolates representing true bacteremia, 25 likely contaminant isolates, and 25 skin isolates) and the ability of sequence typing to differentiate them. Three machine learning algorithms (classification regression tree, support vector machine, and nearest neighbor) were employed. Genetic variability was substantial between isolates, with 44 sequence types found in 100 isolates. Sequence types 2 and 5 were most commonly identified. However, among the classification algorithms we employed, none were effective, with CART and SVM both yielding only 73% diagnostic accuracy and nearest neighbor analysis yielding only 53% accuracy. Our data mirror previous studies examining the presence or absence of pathogenic genes in that the overlap between truly significant organisms and contaminants appears to prevent the use of MLST in the clarification of blood cultures recovering S. epidermidis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-177f3e590dec4968b71e8bcf31a39a102025-02-03T01:32:47ZengWileyInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases1687-708X1687-70982014-01-01201410.1155/2014/787458787458Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidisPrannda Sharma0Ashley E. Satorius1Marika R. Raff2Adriana Rivera3Duane W. Newton4John G. Younger5The Biointerfaces Institute and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, 26-329N North Campus Research Complex, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAThe Biointerfaces Institute and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, 26-329N North Campus Research Complex, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAThe Biointerfaces Institute and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, 26-329N North Campus Research Complex, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAThe Biointerfaces Institute and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, 26-329N North Campus Research Complex, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USADepartment of Pathology, University of Michigan, 2F461 UH, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAThe Biointerfaces Institute and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, 26-329N North Campus Research Complex, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAStaphylococcus epidermidis is an important cause of nosocomial infection and bacteremia. It is also a common contaminant of blood cultures and, as a result, there is frequently uncertainty as to its diagnostic significance when recovered in the clinical laboratory. One molecular strategy that might be of value in clarifying the interpretation of S. epidermidis identified in blood culture is multilocus sequence typing. Here, we examined 100 isolates of this species (50 blood isolates representing true bacteremia, 25 likely contaminant isolates, and 25 skin isolates) and the ability of sequence typing to differentiate them. Three machine learning algorithms (classification regression tree, support vector machine, and nearest neighbor) were employed. Genetic variability was substantial between isolates, with 44 sequence types found in 100 isolates. Sequence types 2 and 5 were most commonly identified. However, among the classification algorithms we employed, none were effective, with CART and SVM both yielding only 73% diagnostic accuracy and nearest neighbor analysis yielding only 53% accuracy. Our data mirror previous studies examining the presence or absence of pathogenic genes in that the overlap between truly significant organisms and contaminants appears to prevent the use of MLST in the clarification of blood cultures recovering S. epidermidis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/787458 |
| spellingShingle | Prannda Sharma Ashley E. Satorius Marika R. Raff Adriana Rivera Duane W. Newton John G. Younger Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases |
| title | Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis |
| title_full | Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis |
| title_fullStr | Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis |
| title_short | Multilocus Sequence Typing for Interpreting Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis |
| title_sort | multilocus sequence typing for interpreting blood isolates of staphylococcus epidermidis |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/787458 |
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