scholarly journals Development and Dynamics of Cytomegalovirus UL97 Ganciclovir Resistance Mutations in Transplant Recipients Detected by Next Generation Sequencing

Author(s):  
Isabelle P Lodding ◽  
Mette Jørgensen ◽  
Marc Bennedbæk ◽  
Nikolai Kirkby ◽  
Klaudia Naegele ◽  
...  

Abstract Background (Val)ganciclovir resistance mutations in CMV UL97 (UL97-GCV-R) complicate anti-CMV therapy in recipients of solid organ and hematopoietic stem-cell transplants but comprehensive data on prevalence, emergence, and outcome are scarce. Methods Using next generation sequencing (NGS) (Illumina MiSeq platform), we analysed UL97-GCV-R in patients with available plasma samples and refractory CMV replication/DNAemia (n=87) containing viral loads ≥910 IU/mL. 21 patients with CMV DNAemia resolving under antiviral therapy were analysed as controls. Detected mutations were considered induced and of potential clinical significance if they increased by ≥10% compared to the first detected frequency, or if they had a maximum frequency ≥25%. Results 19/87 (21.8%) with refractory CMV replication had >1 UL97-GCV-R detected by NGS, in comparison to 0/21 of the controls (p=0.02). One third of the recipients had 2 or more induced UL97-GCV-R mutations. The most frequently induced mutations affected codons 595 (42% (8/19)), 594 (32% (6/19)) and 603 (32% (6/19)). C592G was present in all episodes of both cases and controls at frequencies <15%, but never induced. UL97-GCV-R tended to be more frequent in donor/recipient CMV IgG mismatch or following failure to complete primary prophylaxis, and many developed invasive CMV disease. Conclusion UL97-GCV-R is common among transplant patients with refractory CMV replication. Early testing by NGS allows for identification of major mutations at codons 595, 594 and 603, and exclude a major role of C592G in ganciclovir resistance. Large prospective studies on UL97-GCV-R are warranted.

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. S495-S496
Author(s):  
Isabelle Paula Lodding ◽  
Mette Jørgensen ◽  
Marc Bennedbæk ◽  
Nikolai Kirkby ◽  
Klaudia Naegele ◽  
...  

Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Miaomiao Li ◽  
Shujia Liang ◽  
Chao Zhou ◽  
Min Chen ◽  
Shu Liang ◽  
...  

Patients with antiretroviral therapy interruption have a high risk of virological failure when re-initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART), especially those with HIV drug resistance. Next-generation sequencing may provide close scrutiny on their minority drug resistance variant. A cross-sectional study was conducted in patients with ART interruption in five regions in China in 2016. Through Sanger and next-generation sequencing in parallel, HIV drug resistance was genotyped on their plasma samples. Rates of HIV drug resistance were compared by the McNemar tests. In total, 174 patients were included in this study, with a median 12 (interquartile range (IQR), 6–24) months of ART interruption. Most (86.2%) of them had received efavirenz (EFV)/nevirapine (NVP)-based first-line therapy for a median 16 (IQR, 7–26) months before ART interruption. Sixty-one (35.1%) patients had CRF07_BC HIV-1 strains, 58 (33.3%) CRF08_BC and 35 (20.1%) CRF01_AE. Thirty-four (19.5%) of the 174 patients were detected to harbor HIV drug-resistant variants on Sanger sequencing. Thirty-six (20.7%), 37 (21.3%), 42 (24.1%), 79 (45.4%) and 139 (79.9) patients were identified to have HIV drug resistance by next-generation sequencing at 20% (v.s. Sanger, p = 0.317), 10% (v.s. Sanger, p = 0.180), 5% (v.s. Sanger, p = 0.011), 2% (v.s. Sanger, p < 0.001) and 1% (v.s. Sanger, p < 0.001) of detection thresholds, respectively. K65R was the most common minority mutation, of 95.1% (58/61) and 93.1% (54/58) in CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC, respectively, when compared with 5.7% (2/35) in CRF01_AE (p < 0.001). In 49 patients that followed-up a median 10 months later, HIV drug resistance mutations at >20% frequency such as K103N, M184VI and P225H still existed, but with decreased frequencies. The prevalence of HIV drug resistance in ART interruption was higher than 15% in the survey. Next-generation sequencing was able to detect more minority drug resistance variants than Sanger. There was a sharp increase in minority drug resistance variants when the detection threshold was below 5%.


F1000Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose F. Camargo ◽  
Asim A. Ahmed ◽  
Martin S. Lindner ◽  
Michele I. Morris ◽  
Shweta Anjan ◽  
...  

Background: Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing has emerged as an effective laboratory method for rapid and noninvasive diagnosis in prenatal screening testing, organ transplant rejection screening, and oncology liquid biopsies but clinical experience for use of this technology in diagnostic evaluation of infections in immunocompromised hosts is limited.  Methods: We conducted an exploratory study using next-generation sequencing (NGS) for detection of microbial cfDNA in a cohort of ten immunocompromised patients with febrile neutropenia, pneumonia or intra-abdominal infection.  Results: Pathogen identification by cfDNA NGS demonstrated positive agreement with conventional diagnostic laboratory methods in 7 (70%) cases, including patients with proven/probable invasive aspergillosis, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia, Cytomegalovirus and Adenovirus viremia. NGS results were discordant in 3 (30%) cases including two patients with culture negative sepsis who had undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplant in whom cfDNA testing identified the etiological agent of sepsis; and one kidney transplant recipient with invasive aspergillosis who had received >6 months of antifungal therapy prior to NGS testing. Conclusion: These observations support the clinical utility of measurement of microbial cfDNA sequencing from peripheral blood for rapid noninvasive diagnosis of infections in immunocompromised hosts. Larger studies are needed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. S147-S147
Author(s):  
Zacharoula Oikonomopoulou ◽  
Sameer Patel ◽  
Jacquie Toia ◽  
William Muller

Abstract Background Patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and patients with hematologic malignancies are at increased risk for acquiring invasive fungal infection (IFI) due to immune system impairment from chemotherapy. Affected patients require prolonged antifungal therapy with the risk of associated toxicity and extended hospitalization due to delay of accurate diagnosis. There is a lack of effective serologic biomarkers and hesitancy to proceed with tissue diagnosis due to thrombocytopenia or other associated risks. Mortality in oncology patients with invasive mycoses is high, with pediatric mortality rates of 30–40% at 12 weeks following diagnosis. Methods All patients that were admitted to Lurie Children’s Hospital between January 2014 and December 2018 and received voriconazole, ambisome, posaconazole and isavuconazole were identified. The following data were retrospectively collected: CT chest and sinus, (1,3)-β-d-Glucan and Aspergillus galactomannan, ANC and ALC at diagnosis, blood next-generation sequencing, tissue 18s rRNA, fungal culture, duration of neutropenia and lymphopenia, site of infection, time between underlying diagnosis and development of IFI, surgical intervention and associated mortality. Results A total of 94 unique patients that received voriconazole were identified. There were 8 proven cases of invasive Aspergillus infection the past 5 years, 50% male, mean age 14 years. Only 25% of patients had positive serum Aspergillus galactomannan and 37.5% had positive β-d-Glucan. Seven cases were due to Aspergillus fumigatus and one case was due to Aspergillus flavus. There were 9 patients with mucormycosis and all but one were culture positive. Three patients with Mucor had mold identification in blood next-generation sequencing prior to surgery. Mucor associated mortality was 22.2%. Conclusion The majority of pediatric patients with invasive aspergillosis did not have characteristic chest CT imaging findings and serum Aspergillus galactomannan was usually negative.The was no associated mortality in invasive Aspergillus cases, whereas the mortality rate of invasive mucormycosis was 22.2%. Although we have a small sample size, this is significantly lower compared with published literature. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 106 (6) ◽  
pp. 510-517
Author(s):  
Sinem Yalcintepe ◽  
Hakan Gurkan ◽  
Selma Demir ◽  
Hilmi Tozkir ◽  
Huseyin Ahmet Tezel ◽  
...  

Background: Recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology have enabled multigene testing and changed the diagnostic approach to hereditary gastrointestinal cancer/polyposis syndromes. The aim of this study was to analyze different cancer predisposition genes in hereditary/sporadic gastrointestinal cancer/polyposis. Methods: Cancer predisposition genes were analyzed with an Illumina MiSeq NGS system in 80 patients with gastrointestinal cancer/polyposis who were examined between the years 2016 and 2019. Deletion/duplication analysis of MLH1, MSH2, and EPCAM genes was performed by using the multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification method. Results: Germline testing of hereditary cancer-related genes was performed in 80 patients with gastrointestinal cancer/polyposis. A total of 30 variants in 30 cases (37.5%) were assessed as pathogenic/likely pathogenic. A total of 19 heterozygous variants were assessed as variants of uncertain clinical significance in 17 cases (21.25%) and 18 (22.5%) novel variations (9 pathogenic/likely pathogenic, 9 variants of uncertain significance) were determined. In 4 (5%) cases, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification detected deletions in MLH1, MSH2, and EPCAM genes. Conclusion: The accumulation of analyses with multigene testing will increase the available data for cancer predisposition genes in hereditary gastrointestinal cancer/polyposis. Educational campaigns for prevention, efficient screening programs, and more personalized care based on the profile of individual patients are necessary.


2018 ◽  
Vol 156 (10) ◽  
pp. 1196-1204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo Mestanza ◽  
Ricardo Riegel ◽  
Santiago C. Vásquez ◽  
Diana Veliz ◽  
Nicolás Cruz-Rosero ◽  
...  

AbstractQuinoa (Chenopodium quinoaWilld) is a dicotyledonous annual species belonging to the family Amaranthaceae, which is nutritionally well balanced in terms of its oil, protein and carbohydrate content. Targeting-induced local lesions in genomes (the TILLING strategy) was employed to find mutations in acetolactate synthase (AHAS) genes in a mutant quinoa population. TheAHASgenes were targeted because they are common enzyme target sites for five herbicide groups. Ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) was used to induce mutations in theAHASgenes; it was found that 2% EMS allowed a mutation frequency of one mutation every 203 kilobases to be established. In the mutant population created, a screening strategy using pre-selection phenotypic data and next-generation sequencing (NGS) allowed identification of a mutation that alters the amino acid composition of this species (nucleotide 1231 codon GTT→ATT, Val→Ile); however, this mutation did not result in herbicide resistance. The current work shows that TILLING combined with the high-throughput of NGS technologies and an overlapping pool design provides an efficient and economical method for detecting induced mutations in pools of individuals.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. S423
Author(s):  
E. Sánchez Herrero ◽  
M. Barquin ◽  
V. Calvo De Juan ◽  
M. Auglyte ◽  
R. Garcia Campelo ◽  
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