In Young Yoo1, Kyungmin Huh2, Hyang Jin Shim3, Sun Ae Yun3, Yoo Na Chung1, On Kyun Kang1, Hee Jae Huh4, Nam Yong Lee5. 1. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 2. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Asia Pacific Foundation for Infectious Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 3. Center for Clinical Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 4. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: pmhhj77@gmail.com. 5. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: micro.lee@samsung.com.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The performance of the investigational-use-only version of the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia Panel (FA-Pneumo), a high-order nested multiplex PCR, was evaluated for the detection of typical respiratory bacterial pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in sputa and endotracheal aspirate (ETA) specimens. METHODS: Thirty-one sputa and 69 ETA specimens were analyzed. The diagnostic performance of FA-Pneumo was assessed using routine microbiological methods as the reference standard. RESULTS: Overall sensitivity and specificity for organism detection using FA-Pneumo were 98.5% and 76.5%, respectively. The sensitivity for each pathogen was 100%, except for Klebsiella aerogenes, and the range of specificity was 83.3-99.0%. FA-Pneumo detected antimicrobial resistance genes in 17 out of 18 specimens (94.4%) that were resistant by antimicrobial susceptibility testing. FA-Pneumo additionally detected 25 resistance genes in 22 specimens, and sequencing for the presence of resistance genes confirmed the majority of these results (20/25, 80%). Semi-quantitative analysis of bacterial nucleic acid amounts by FA-Pneumo revealed that 88.2% of the identified bacteria (67/76) with ≥106 copies/ml also gave culture-positive results with significant amounts of bacteria. CONCLUSIONS: FA-Pneumo is a rapid test with high sensitivity for the detection of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance genes in sputum and ETA specimens and could aid in determining antibiotic therapy.
OBJECTIVES: The performance of the investigational-use-only version of the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia Panel (FA-Pneumo), a high-order nested multiplex PCR, was evaluated for the detection of typical respiratory bacterial pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in sputa and endotracheal aspirate (ETA) specimens. METHODS: Thirty-one sputa and 69 ETA specimens were analyzed. The diagnostic performance of FA-Pneumo was assessed using routine microbiological methods as the reference standard. RESULTS: Overall sensitivity and specificity for organism detection using FA-Pneumo were 98.5% and 76.5%, respectively. The sensitivity for each pathogen was 100%, except for Klebsiella aerogenes, and the range of specificity was 83.3-99.0%. FA-Pneumo detected antimicrobial resistance genes in 17 out of 18 specimens (94.4%) that were resistant by antimicrobial susceptibility testing. FA-Pneumo additionally detected 25 resistance genes in 22 specimens, and sequencing for the presence of resistance genes confirmed the majority of these results (20/25, 80%). Semi-quantitative analysis of bacterial nucleic acid amounts by FA-Pneumo revealed that 88.2% of the identified bacteria (67/76) with ≥106 copies/ml also gave culture-positive results with significant amounts of bacteria. CONCLUSIONS: FA-Pneumo is a rapid test with high sensitivity for the detection of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance genes in sputum and ETA specimens and could aid in determining antibiotic therapy.
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