Microbes in the neonatal intensive care unit resemble those found in the gut of premature infants

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作者
Brooks, Brandon [1 ]
Firek, Brian A. [2 ]
Miller, Christopher S. [1 ,3 ]
Sharon, Itai [1 ]
Thomas, Brian C. [1 ]
Baker, Robyn [4 ]
Morowitz, Michael J. [2 ]
Banfield, Jillian F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Pittsburgh, Sch Med, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 USA
[3] Univ Colorado, Dept Integrat Biol, Denver, CO 80202 USA
[4] UPMC, Childrens Hosp Pittsburgh, Div Newborn Med, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 USA
来源
MICROBIOME | 2014年 / 2卷
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
QUATERNARY AMMONIUM-COMPOUNDS; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; PRETERM INFANTS; BACTERIAL; COMMUNITY; RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; DIVERSITY; IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;
D O I
10.1186/2049-2618-2-1
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Background: The source inoculum of gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbes is largely influenced by delivery mode in full-term infants, but these influences may be decoupled in very low birth weight (VLBW, <1,500 g) neonates via conventional broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment. We hypothesize the built environment (BE), specifically room surfaces frequently touched by humans, is a predominant source of colonizing microbes in the gut of premature VLBW infants. Here, we present the first matched fecal-BE time series analysis of two preterm VLBW neonates housed in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) over the first month of life. Results: Fresh fecal samples were collected every 3 days and metagenomes sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq2000 device. For each fecal sample, approximately 33 swabs were collected from each NICU room from 6 specified areas: sink, feeding and intubation tubing, hands of healthcare providers and parents, general surfaces, and nurse station electronics (keyboard, mouse, and cell phone). Swabs were processed using a recently developed 'expectation maximization iterative reconstruction of genes from the environment' (EMIRGE) amplicon pipeline in which full-length 16S rRNA amplicons were sheared and sequenced using an Illumina platform, and short reads reassembled into full-length genes. Over 24,000 full-length 16S rRNA sequences were produced, generating an average of approximately 12,000 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) (clustered at 97% nucleotide identity) per room-infant pair. Dominant gut taxa, including Staphylococcus epidermidis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Bacteroides fragilis, and Escherichia coli, were widely distributed throughout the room environment with many gut colonizers detected in more than half of samples. Reconstructed genomes from infant gut colonizers revealed a suite of genes that confer resistance to antibiotics (for example, tetracycline, fluoroquinolone, and aminoglycoside) and sterilizing agents, which likely offer a competitive advantage in the NICU environment. Conclusions: We have developed a high-throughput culture-independent approach that integrates room surveys based on full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences with metagenomic analysis of fecal samples collected from infants in the room. The approach enabled identification of discrete ICU reservoirs of microbes that also colonized the infant gut and provided evidence for the presence of certain organisms in the room prior to their detection in the gut.
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