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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2022

Targeted plasma metabolomics combined with machine learning for the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome virus type 2.

Anthony T Le, Manhong Wu, Afraz Khan, Nicholas Phillips, Pranav Rajpurkar, Megan Garland, Kayla Magid, Mamdouh Sibai, ChunHong Huang, Malaya K Sahoo and 4 more

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Anthony T LeDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Manhong WuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Afraz KhanBritish Columbia Center for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Nicholas PhillipsStanford Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Pranav RajpurkarStanford Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Megan GarlandDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Kayla MagidDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Mamdouh SibaiDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
ChunHong HuangDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Malaya K SahooDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Raffick BowenDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Tina M CowanDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Benjamin A PinskyDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Catherine A HoganDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Stanford University · USStanford Health Care · USBC Centre for Disease Control · CAUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: The routine clinical diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is largely restricted to real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR), and tests that detect SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antigen. Given the diagnostic delay and suboptimal sensitivity associated with these respective methods, alternative diagnostic strategies are needed for acute infection. Methods: We studied the use of a clinically validated liquid chromatography triple quadrupole method (LC/MS-MS) for detection of amino acids from plasma specimens. We applied machine learning models to distinguish between SARS-CoV-2-positive and negative samples and analyzed amino acid feature importance. Results: A total of 200 samples were tested, including 70 from individuals with COVID-19, and 130 from negative controls. The top performing model overall allowed discrimination between SARS-CoV-2-positive and negative control samples with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.96 (95%CI 0.91, 1.00), overall sensitivity of 0.99 (95%CI 0.92, 1.00), and specificity of 0.92 (95%CI 0.85, 0.95). Discussion: This approach holds potential as an alternative to existing methods for the rapid and accurate diagnosis of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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amino acidsCOVID-19metabolomicsplasmaSARS-CoV-2

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PMID37063449
PMCPMC10092816
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