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Chirambo, Angeziwa Chunga, Nyirenda, Tonney S., Jambo, Ndaru, Msefula, Chisomo, Kamng'ona, Arox, Molina, Sandra, Mandala, Wilson L., Heyderman, Robert S., Iturizza-Gomara, Miren, Henrion, Marc and Gordon, Melita A. (2021) 'Performance of molecular methods for the detection of Salmonella in human stool specimens'. Wellcome Open Research, Vol 5, p. 237.
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Abstract
Background: The relationship between asymptomatic Salmonella exposure within the gastrointestinal tract and Salmonella bacteraemia is poorly understood, in part due to the low sensitivity of stool culture and the lack of validated molecular diagnostic tests for the detection of Salmonella in the stool. The study aimed to determine a reliable molecular diagnostic test for Salmonella in stool specimens.
Methods: We optimised an in-house monoplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of Salmonella ttr and InvA genes in stool by including a selenite broth pre-culture step for Salmonella before DNA extraction and validated their specificity against other local common pathogens. Then we assessed their performance against a well-validated multiplex PCR targeting the same ttr and InvA genes and against stool culture using clinical stool specimens collected from a cohort of 50 asymptomatic healthy Malawian children that were sampled at 1-month intervals over 12 months. We employed a latent Markov model to estimate the specificities and sensitivities of PCR methods.
Results: Ttr and InvA primers were both able to detect all the different Salmonella serovars tested and had superior limits of detection when DNA was extracted after selenite pre-culture. Ttr sensitivity and specificity for monoplex-PCR were (99.53%, 95.46%) and for multiplex-PCR (90.30%, 99.30%) respectively. InvA specificity and specificity for using monoplex-PCR was (95.06%, 90.31%) and multiplex-PCRs (89.41%, 98.00%) respectively. Sensitivity and specificity for standard stool culture were 62.88% and 99.99%, respectively. Culture showed the highest PPV (99.73%), and monoplex-ttr had the highest NPV (99.67%).
Conclusion: Test methods demonstrated high concordance, although stool culture and monoplexed ttr primers had superior specificity and sensitivity, respectively. The use of selenite pre-enrichment step increased Salmonella detection rate. Taken together, molecular detection methods used here could be used to reveal the true extent of both asymptomatic and symptomatic Salmonella exposure events.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Updated version of 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16305.1 published in Oct 2020 |
| Subjects: | WC Communicable Diseases > Infection. Bacterial Infections > Enteric Infections > WC 269 Salmonella infections WI Digestive System > WI 100 General works |
| Faculty: Department: | Clinical Sciences & International Health > Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme (MLW) |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16305.2 |
| Depositing User: | Stacy Murtagh |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2021 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2021 13:15 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/18028 |
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