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ArticleFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

High-Throughput Multiparallel Enteropathogen Detection via Nano-Liter qPCR.

Jessica A Grembi, Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, Stephen P Luby, Alfred M Spormann

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Article in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Jessica A GrembiDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Koshlan Mayer-BlackwellDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Stephen P LubyDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Alfred M SpormannDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative molecular diagnostic methods can effectively detect pathogen-specific nucleic acid sequences, but costs associated with multi-pathogen panels hinder their widespread use in research trials. Nano-liter qPCR (nL-qPCR) is a miniaturized tool for quantification of multiple targets in large numbers of samples based on assay parallelization on a single chip, with potentially significant cost-savings due to rapid throughput and reduced reagent volumes. We evaluated a suite of novel and published assays to detect 17 enteric pathogens using a commercially available nL-qPCR technology. Amplification efficiencies ranged from 88 to 98% (mean 91%) and were reproducible across four operators at two separate facilities. When applied to fecal material, assays were sensitive and selective (99.8% of DNA amplified were genes from the target organism). Due to nanofluidic volumes, detection limits were 1-2 orders of magnitude less sensitive for nL-qPCR than an enteric TaqMan Array Card (TAC). However, higher detection limits do not hinder detection of diarrhea-causing pathogen concentrations. Compared to TAC, nL-qPCR displayed 99% (95% CI 0.98, 0.99) negative percent agreement and 62% (95% CI 0.59, 0.65) overall positive percent agreement for presence of pathogens across diarrheal and non-diarrheal fecal samples. Positive percent agreement was 89% among samples with concentrations above the nL-qPCR detection limits. nL-qPCR assays showed an underestimation bias of 0.34 log

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DiarrheaMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesFecesHumansReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and Specificityenteric infectionenteropathogenhigh-throughputmolecular detectionqPCRquantification

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