Research benefits of storing genitourinary samples: 16S rRNA sequencing to evaluate vaginal bacterial communities

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  • Josef Wagner
  • Sarah Kerry-Barnard
  • ST Sadiq
  • Pippa Oakeshott
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Research benefits of storing genitourinary samples: 16S rRNA sequencing to evaluate vaginal bacterial communities Dear Editor, Using well-characterised, but old and carefully frozen genital tract research samples may be a cost-effective way of performing metagenomic studies, but risks loss of low abundance (but relevant) bacterial species DNA. Moi et al. 1 used 16S rRNA and UreDNA sequencing to detect ureaplasmas in frozen urine samples collected from 362 men with NGU in 2010–2011. They found that urethral inflammatory responses to ureaplasmas were less severe than to Chlamydia tracho-matis and Mycoplasma genitalium. In a pilot study in 2015, we used 16S rRNA sequen-cing to evaluate bacterial communities in 20 stored self-taken vaginal samples collected in 2004–2008 for the Prevention of Pelvic Infection (POPI) chlamydia screening trial. 2 The mean age of the women whose samples were tested was 18 years (range: 16 to 26), and three were positive for C. trachomatis (including one co-infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae) and one for M. genitalium. Despite up to 11 years of storage in Gen-Probe Aptima transport medium at À80 C, DNA integrity was adequate in all the 20 samples analysed including four postal samples. The full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene was amplified using New England Biolab Q5 high-fidelity poly-merase kit. Equimolar library mix was prepared and sequenced using PacBio SMRT sequencing technology. Downstream bioinformatics analysis was performed using Mothur (version 1.34.4). We obtained 73,590 raw sequences from 22 samples, including one negative and one positive control, of which 41,166 were of high quality. Four samples with low sequence number (<500 sequences) were excluded. In the remaining 16 samples, 65 unique oligotype species were identified, of which 14 had a minimum abundance of 0.1% (Figure 1). Burkholderia species were identified as contaminants and removed. Five oligotype species had a minimum abundance of 1%: Lactobacillus crispatus (52.8%), Lactobacillus iners (33.7%), Gardnerella vaginalis (3.5%), Lactobacillus gasseri (2.9%), and Finegoldia magna (1.1%). Six samples were dominated by L. iners (red bar), and seven samples by L. crispatus (blue bar). Sample 581_lbc2, previously assessed as bacterial vaginosis (BV) intermediate, was dominated by G. vaginalis. Patient 1117, the one positive for C. tracho-matis and N. gonorrhoeae, had the highest number of Megasphaera elsdenii, which has been reported in BV. Patient 586_Ibc6 described her ethnicity as black other and had the largest bacterial diversity among all patients analysed. We note that C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae were not detected in the samples. …

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دوره 28  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2017