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Bacterial Communities Diverge in The Lower Airways of CF Children

By LabMedica International staff writers
Posted on 23 Dec 2021
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Chronic airway infection and inflammation resulting in progressive, obstructive lung disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). Culture-independent, molecular approaches have broadened the view from a few individual pathogens to more complex and dynamic polymicrobial communities.

In infants and young children with CF, culture-independent next-generation sequencing approaches have been useful in describing the upper airway microbiota, and previous studies have shown that younger patients have higher diversity which decreases as lung disease progresses. Longitudinal analysis of infant samples has identified changes in microbial composition and diversity in the first two years of life.

A team of Pulmonologists and Pediatricians, led by those at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA), and their colleagues evaluated clinical data and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples from 191 participants up to age 21 years. Sixty-three patients had cystic fibrosis (mean age, 9.7 years; 65% female). DNA was extracted from BALF samples using the Qiagen EZ1 Advanced automated extraction platform (Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA). Total bacterial load (TBL) was assessed using the quantitative PCR assay. Bacterial profiles were determined by amplification of the V1/V2 variable region (27F/338R) of the 16S rRNA gene. Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were produced by clustering sequences with identical taxonomic assignments. Illumina paired-end sequencing was performed on the MiSeq platform using a 500-cycle version 2 reagent kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA).

The investigators reported that higher bacterial load and lower microbial diversity in samples from patients with cystic fibrosis. In addition, these samples also had a divergence from disease controls aged 2 to 5 years and higher neutrophilic inflammation relative to bacterial burden, according to the results. They observed an increase in traditional cystic fibrosis pathogens and decreased Streptococcus mitis, S. oralis and S. pneumoniae species in the samples from older participants with cystic fibrosis. The most prevalent species-level taxa were S. mitis/oralis/pneumoniae (52%) and Prevotella melaninogenica (44%). There was increased diversity in the heterogeneous disease controls independent of cystic fibrosis diagnosis and indication.

Theresa Laguna, MD, MSCS, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and senior author of the study, said, “Establishing key age-related differences in lower airway bacterial communities and inflammation in patients with CF, especially during early childhood, may give us a window of opportunity for earlier and more precise treatment. If we can prevent worse infections, we could improve the quality of life and potentially expand the life expectancy of patients with CF.”

The authors concluded that they had found distinctions between the airway microbiomes of CF and disease control subjects in a pediatric population that can inform future studies. By using 16S, they characterized complex polymicrobial communities in the lower airway from infancy up to young adulthood in people with and without CF. The study was published on October 6, 2021 in the journal PLOS ONE.

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