Gold-standard diagnostics are tarnished by lytic bacteriophage
Nelson, E. J.; Grembi, J. A.; Chao, D. L.; Andrews, J. R.; Alexandrova, L.; Rodriguez, P. H.; Ramachandran, V. V.; Sayeed, M. A.; Wamala, J.; Debes, A. K.; Sack, D. A.; Hryckowian, A. J.; Haque, F.; Khatun, S.; Rahman, M. M.; Chien, A.; Spormann, A. M.; Schoolnik, G. K.
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BackgroundA fundamental clinical and scientific concern is how lytic bacteriophage, as well as antibiotics, impact diagnostic positivity. MethodsCholera was chosen as a model disease to investigate this important question. Patients with diarrheal disease were enrolled at two remote hospitals in Bangladesh. Diagnostic performance was assessed as a function of lytic bacteriophage detection, as well as exposure to the first-line antibiotic azithromycin detected by mass spectrometry. ResultsAmong diarrheal samples positive by nanoliter quantitative PCR for Vibrio cholerae (n=78/849), the odds that a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) or qPCR was positive was reduced by 89% (OR 0.108; 95%CI 0.002-0.872) and 87% (OR 0.130; 95%CI 0.022-0.649) when lytic bacteriophage were detected, respectively. The odds that a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) or qPCR was positive was reduced by more than 99% (OR 0.00; 95% CI: 0.00-0.28) and 89% (OR 0.11; 95% CI: 0.03-0.44) when azithromycin was detected, respectively. ConclusionsEstimations of cholera burden may improve by accommodating for the negative effect of antimicrobial exposure on diagnostic positivity. Furthermore, the findings herein challenge our current approach to interpreting and developing bacterial diagnostics given variable rates of lytic bacteriophage and antibiotic exposure.
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