Prevalence and extent of heteroresistance by next generation sequencing of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Open Access
- 18 May 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLOS ONE
- Vol. 12 (5), e0176522
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176522
Abstract
Amplicon-based Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is an emerging method for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing (DST) but has not been well described. We examined 158 clinical multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis isolates via NGS of 11 resistance-associated gene regions covering 3519 nucleotides. Across these gene regions, complete resistance or heteroresistance (defined as 1%-99% mutation) was present in at least one isolate in 6.3% of loci. The number of isolates with heteroresistance was highest for gyrA codon 94, rpoB codons 526 and 531, and embB codons 306, 372 and 406 (range 11–26% of isolates exhibited heteroresistance). 57% of MDR strains had heteroresistance of one or more recognized resistance-associated mutation. Heteroresistant loci generally exhibited high or low degrees of mutation (>90% or pncA heteroresistance appeared to improve genotypic-phenotypic PZA susceptibility correlations over that of Sanger. NGS demonstrates that heteroresistance in TB in the regions of key genes is common and will need to be bioinformatically managed. The clinical significance of such heteroresistance is unclear, and further study of pncA should be pursued.Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (AI093358)
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