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ArticleJournal of global antimicrobial resistance2021

A novel air-dried multiplex high-resolution melt assay for the detection of extended-spectrum β-lactamase and carbapenemase genes.

Ana I Cubas-Atienzar, Christopher T Williams, Abhilasha Karkey, Sabina Dongol, Manandhar Sulochana, Shrestha Rajendra, Glyn Hobbs, Katie Evans, Patrick Musicha, Nicholas Feasey and 3 more

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Article in Journal of global antimicrobial resistance, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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13 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ana I Cubas-AtienzarCentre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Christopher T WilliamsCentre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Abhilasha KarkeyOxford Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Sabina DongolOxford Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Manandhar SulochanaOxford Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Shrestha RajendraOxford Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Glyn HobbsLiverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
Katie EvansLiverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
Patrick MusichaWellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Nicholas FeaseyCentre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.
Luis E CuevasCentre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Emily R AdamsCentre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Thomas EdwardsCentre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK. Electronic address: thomas.edwards@lstmed.ac.uk.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GBPatan Academy of Health Sciences · NPLiverpool John Moores University · GBUniversity of Liverpool · GBWellcome Sanger Institute · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council 17196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis study aimed to develop and evaluate a novel air-dried high-resolution melt (HRM) assay to detect eight major extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) (bla

methodsThe assay was evaluated using 439 DNA samples extracted from bacterial isolates from Nepal, Malawi and the UK and 390 clinical isolates from Nepal with known antimicrobial susceptibility. Assay reproducibility was evaluated across five different real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) instruments [Rotor-Gene® Q, QuantStudio

resultsThe sensitivity and specificity (with 95% confidence intervals) for detecting ESBL and carbapenemase genes was 94.7% (92.5-96.5%) and 99.2% (98.8-99.5%) compared with the reference gel-based PCR and sequencing and 98.3% (97.0-99.3%) and 98.5% (98.0-98.9%) compared with the original HRM wet PCR mix format. Overall agreement was 91.1% (90.0-92.9%) when predicting phenotypic resistance to cefotaxime and meropenem among Enterobacteriaceae isolates. We observed almost perfect inter-machine reproducibility of the air-dried HRM assay, and no loss of sensitivity occurred under all storage conditions and time points.

conclusionWe present a ready-to-use air-dried HRM PCR assay that offers an easy, thermostable, fast and accurate tool for the detection of ESBL and carbapenemase genes in DNA samples to improve antimicrobial resistance detection.

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Anti-Bacterial Agentsbeta-LactamasesBacterial ProteinsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsReproducibility of ResultsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Proteinsbeta-LactamasescarbapenemaseAntimicrobial resistanceCarbapenemaseESBLExtended-spectrum β-lactamaseHigh-resolution meltingMolecular diagnostics

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PMID34482019
PMCPMC8692233
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