Early Detection of Bacterial Pneumonia by Characteristic Induced Odor Signatures

Overview

Journal BMC Infect Dis

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2024 Dec 28

PMID 39731069

Authors

Kim Arnold

Alejandro Gomez-Mejia

Miguel de Figueiredo

Julien Boccard

Kapil Dev Singh

Serge Rudaz

Pablo Sinues

Annelies S Zinkernagel

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Abstract

Introduction: The ability to detect pathogenic bacteria before the onsets of severe respiratory symptoms and to differentiate bacterial infection allows to improve patient-tailored treatment leading to a significant reduction in illness severity, comorbidity as well as antibiotic resistance. As such, this study refines the application of the non-invasive Secondary Electrospray Ionization-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (SESI-HRMS) methodology for real-time and early detection of human respiratory bacterial pathogens in the respiratory tract of a mouse infection model.

Methods: A real-time analysis of changes in volatile metabolites excreted by mice undergoing a lung infection by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pneumoniae were evaluated using a SESI-HRMS instrument. The infection status was confirmed using classical CFU enumeration and tissue histology. The detected VOCs were analyzed using a pre- and post-processing algorithm along with ANOVA and RASCA statistical evaluation methods.

Results: Characteristic changes in the VOCs emitted from the mice were detected as early as 4-6 h post-inoculation. Additionally, by using each mouse as its own baseline, we mimicked the inherent variation within biological organism and reported significant variations in 25 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the course of a lung bacterial infection.

Conclusion: the non-invasive SESI-HRMS enables real-time detection of infection specific VOCs. However, further refinement of this technology is necessary to improve clinical patient management, treatment, and facilitate decisions regarding antibiotic use due to early infection detection.

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