Using metagenomic analyses to estimate the consequences of enrichment bias for pathogen detection

BMC Research Notes

Andrea Ottesen²  Eric Brown²  Marc Allard²  James R White³  Eugene McAvoy¹  James B Pettengill² 

[1] University of Florida - IFAS Hendry County Extension, PO Box 68, LaBelle, FL, 33975, USA;FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Microbiology, Molecular Methods and Subtyping, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD, 20740, USA;IGS Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 801 West Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

关键词: Taxonomy;    Pathogen;    Metagenomics;    Enrichment bias;   

Others  :  1166082
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-5-378

 received in 2012-03-22, accepted in 2012-07-10,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Enriching environmental samples to increase the probability of detection has been standard practice throughout the history of microbiology. However, by its very nature, the process of enrichment creates a biased sample that may have unintended consequences for surveillance or resolving a pathogenic outbreak. With the advent of next-generation sequencing and metagenomic approaches, the possibility now exists to quantify enrichment bias at an unprecedented taxonomic breadth.

Findings

We investigated differences in taxonomic profiles of three enriched and unenriched tomato phyllosphere samples taken from three different tomato fields (n = 18). 16S rRNA gene meteganomes were created for each of the 18 samples using 454/Roche’s pyrosequencing platform, resulting in a total of 165,259 sequences. Significantly different taxonomic profiles and abundances at a number of taxonomic levels were observed between the two treatments. Although as many as 28 putative Salmonella sequences were detected in enriched samples, there was no significant difference in the abundance of Salmonella between enriched and unenriched treatments.

Conclusions

Our results illustrate that the process of enriching greatly alters the taxonomic profile of an environmental sample beyond that of the target organism. We also found evidence suggesting that enrichment may not increase the probability of detecting a target. In conclusion, our results further emphasize the need to develop metagenomics as a validated culture independent method for pathogen detection.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Pettengill et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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