Benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance-based metabolomic approach for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases publica este artículo de investigación
1 de julio de 2022
Even though enormous efforts and control strategies have been implemented, bovine tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant source of health and socioeconomic concern. The standard method used in TB eradication programs for in vivo detection is the tuberculin skin test. However, the specificity of the tuberculin skin test is affected by infection with non-tuberculous mycobacteria or by vaccination. Thus, some animals are not correctly diagnosed. This study aimed firstly to identify a plasma metabolic TB profile by high-field (HF) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), and secondly measure this characteristic TB metabolic profile using low-field benchtop (LF) NMR as an affordable molecular technology for TB diagnosis. Plasma samples from cattle diagnosed with TB (derivation set, n = 11), diagnosed with paratuberculosis (PTB, n = 10), PTB-vaccinated healthy control (n = 10), and healthy PTB- unvaccinated control (n = 10) were analyzed by NMR. Unsupervised Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to identify metabolic differences between groups. We identified 14 metabolites significantly different between TB and control animals. The second group of TB animals was used to validate the results (validation set, n = 14). Predictive models based on metabolic fingerprint acquired by both HF and LF NMR spectroscopy successfully identified TB versus control subjects (Area Under the Curve of Receiver Operating Characteristic over 0.92 -in both models; Confidence Interval 0.77-1). In summary, plasma fingerprinting using HF and LF-NMR differentiated TB subjects from uninfected animals, and paratuberculosis and PTB-vaccinated subjects that may provide a TB false positive, highlighting the use of LF-NMR based metabolomics as a complementary or alternative diagnostic tool to the current diagnostic methods. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
Ruiz-Cabello J., Sevilla AI., Olaizola E., Bezos J., Miguel-Coello AB., Munoz-Mendoza M., Beraza M., Garrido JM. y Izquierdo-Garcia JL.
| Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biociencias (CIC bioGUNE). | |
 | Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Universidad Complutense (UCM). |
| Facultad de Farmacia. Universidad Complutense (UCM). |
 | Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES). Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). |
| Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA). | |
| Basque Foundation for Science (IKERBAQUE). | |
 | Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario (NEIKER). Gobierno Vasco. |
| Departamento de Sanidad Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. Universidad Complutense (UCM). |
| Servicio de Micobacterias (MYC). Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). Universidad Complutense (UCM). |
 | Servicio de Sanidad Animal. Consellería do Medio Rural. Xunta de Galicia. |
