Urine metabolomic profiling of children with respiratory tract infections in the emergency department: a pilot study
Open Access
- 22 August 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 16 (1), 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1709-6
Abstract
Clinicians lack objective tests to help determine the severity of bronchiolitis or to distinguish a viral from bacterial causes of respiratory distress. We hypothesized that children with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection would have a different metabolomic profile compared to those with bacterial infection or healthy controls, and this might also vary with bronchiolitis severity. Clinical information and urine-based metabolomic data were collected from healthy age-matched children (n = 37) and those admitted to hospital with a proven infection (RSV n = 55; Non-RSV viral n = 16; bacterial n = 24). Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measured 86 metabolites per urine sample. Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) was performed to create models of separation. Using a combination of metabolites, a strong PLS-DA model (R2 = 0.86, Q2 = 0.76) was created differentiating healthy children from those with RSV infection. This model had over 90 % accuracy in classifying blinded infants with similar illness severity. Two other models differentiated length of hospitalization and viral versus bacterial infection. While the sample sizes remain small, this is the first report suggesting that metabolomic analysis of urine samples has the potential to become a diagnostic aid. Future studies with larger sample sizes are required to validate the utility of metabolomics in pediatric patients with respiratory distress.Funding Information
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation
- Women's and Children's Health Research Institute (AB)
- AllerGen
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