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Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease harbour a variation of Haemophilus species

Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease harbour a variation of Haemophilus species
Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease harbour a variation of Haemophilus species
H. haemolyticus is often misidentified as NTHi due to their close phylogenetic relationship. Differentiating between the two is important for correct identification and appropriate treatment of infective organism and to ensure any role of H. haemolyticus in disease is not being overlooked. Speciation however is not completely reliable by culture and PCR methods due to the loss of haemolysis by H. haemolyticus and the heterogeneity of NTHi. Haemophilus isolates from COPD as part of the AERIS study (ClinicalTrials NCT01360398) were speciated by analysing sequence data for the presence of molecular markers. Further investigation into the genomic relationship was carried out using average nucleotide identity and phylogeny of allelic and genome alignments. Only 6.3% were identified as H. haemolyticus. Multiple in silico methods were able to distinguish H. haemolyticus from NTHi. However, no single gene target was found to be 100% accurate. A group of omp2 negative NTHi were observed to be phylogenetically divergent from H. haemolyticus and remaining NTHi. The presence of an atypical group from a geographically and disease limited set of isolates supports the theory that the heterogeneity of NTHi may provide a genetic continuum between NTHi and H. haemolyticus.
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AERIS Study Group
Osman, Karen
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Mortier, Marie-Cécile
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Devaster, Jeanne-Marie
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Osman, Karen, Jefferies, Johanna M.C., Woelk, Christopher H., Devos, Nathalie, Pascal, Thierry G., Mortier, Marie-Cécile, Devaster, Jeanne-Marie, Wilkinson, Tom M.A., Cleary, David and Clarke, Stuart , AERIS Study Group (2018) Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease harbour a variation of Haemophilus species. Scientific Reports, 8 (1), 1-11, [14734]. (doi:10.1038/s41598-018-32973-3).

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Abstract

H. haemolyticus is often misidentified as NTHi due to their close phylogenetic relationship. Differentiating between the two is important for correct identification and appropriate treatment of infective organism and to ensure any role of H. haemolyticus in disease is not being overlooked. Speciation however is not completely reliable by culture and PCR methods due to the loss of haemolysis by H. haemolyticus and the heterogeneity of NTHi. Haemophilus isolates from COPD as part of the AERIS study (ClinicalTrials NCT01360398) were speciated by analysing sequence data for the presence of molecular markers. Further investigation into the genomic relationship was carried out using average nucleotide identity and phylogeny of allelic and genome alignments. Only 6.3% were identified as H. haemolyticus. Multiple in silico methods were able to distinguish H. haemolyticus from NTHi. However, no single gene target was found to be 100% accurate. A group of omp2 negative NTHi were observed to be phylogenetically divergent from H. haemolyticus and remaining NTHi. The presence of an atypical group from a geographically and disease limited set of isolates supports the theory that the heterogeneity of NTHi may provide a genetic continuum between NTHi and H. haemolyticus.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 September 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 October 2018
Published date: 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 425373
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425373
ISSN: 2045-2322
PURE UUID: a4556511-4a88-438a-9242-d23d00e83131
ORCID for David Cleary: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4533-0700
ORCID for Stuart Clarke: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7009-1548

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Date deposited: 16 Oct 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:19

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Author: Karen Osman
Author: Johanna M.C. Jefferies
Author: Christopher H. Woelk
Author: Nathalie Devos
Author: Thierry G. Pascal
Author: Marie-Cécile Mortier
Author: Jeanne-Marie Devaster
Author: David Cleary ORCID iD
Author: Stuart Clarke ORCID iD
Corporate Author: AERIS Study Group

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