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ArticleScientific reports2020

Rapid identification of pathogens, antibiotic resistance genes and plasmids in blood cultures by nanopore sequencing.

Arne M Taxt, Ekaterina Avershina, Stephan A Frye, Umaer Naseer, Rafi Ahmad

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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78 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Arne M TaxtDepartment of Microbiology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, PB 4956, Nydalen, 0424, Oslo, Norway.
Ekaterina AvershinaDepartment of Biotechnology, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Holsetgata 22, 2317, Hamar, Norway.
Stephan A FryeDepartment of Microbiology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, PB 4956, Nydalen, 0424, Oslo, Norway.
Umaer NaseerDepartment of Zoonotic, Food- and Waterborne Infections, 0213 Oslo, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
Rafi AhmadDepartment of Biotechnology, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Holsetgata 22, 2317, Hamar, Norway. rafi.ahmad@inn.no.
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences · NOOslo University Hospital · NONorwegian Institute of Public Health · NO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bloodstream infections (BSI) and sepsis are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Blood culture-based diagnostics usually requires 1-2 days for identification of bacterial agent and an additional 2-3 days for phenotypic determination of antibiotic susceptibility pattern. With the escalating burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) rapid diagnostics becomes increasingly important to secure adequate antibiotic therapy. Real-time whole genome sequencing represents a genotypic diagnostic approach with the ability to rapidly identify pathogens and AMR-encoding genes. Here we have used nanopore sequencing of bacterial DNA extracted from positive blood cultures for identification of pathogens, detection of plasmids and AMR-encoding genes. To our knowledge, this is the first study to gather the above-mentioned information from nanopore sequencing and conduct a comprehensive analysis for diagnostic purposes in real-time. Identification of pathogens was possible after 10 minutes of sequencing and all predefined AMR-encoding genes and plasmids from monoculture experiments were detected within one hour using raw nanopore sequencing data. Furthermore, we demonstrate the correct identification of plasmids and bla

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Blood CultureDNA, BacterialDrug Resistance, MicrobialEscherichia coliGene Transfer, HorizontalNanopore SequencingPlasmidsSalmonellaTime FactorsDNA, Bacterial

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