Imperial College London

myrsini kaforou

Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Infectious Disease

Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics
 
 
 
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@article{Schlapbach:2024:10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00017-8,
author = {Schlapbach, LJ and Ganesamoorthy, D and Wilson, C and Raman, S and George, S and Snelling, PJ and Phillips, N and Irwin, A and Sharp, N and Le, Marsney R and Chavan, A and Hempenstall, A and Bialasiewicz, S and MacDonald, AD and Grimwood, K and Kling, JC and McPherson, SJ and Blumenthal, A and Kaforou, M and Levin, M and Herberg, JA and Gibbons, KS and Coin, LJM and EUCLIDS, consortium and RAPIDS, Study Group},
doi = {10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00017-8},
journal = {Lancet Child Adolesc Health},
pages = {325--338},
title = {Host gene expression signatures to identify infection type and organ dysfunction in children evaluated for sepsis: a multicentre cohort study.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00017-8},
volume = {8},
year = {2024}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB - BACKGROUND: Sepsis is defined as dysregulated host response to infection that leads to life-threatening organ dysfunction. Biomarkers characterising the dysregulated host response in sepsis are lacking. We aimed to develop host gene expression signatures to predict organ dysfunction in children with bacterial or viral infection. METHODS: This cohort study was done in emergency departments and intensive care units of four hospitals in Queensland, Australia, and recruited children aged 1 month to 17 years who, upon admission, underwent a diagnostic test, including blood cultures, for suspected sepsis. Whole-blood RNA sequencing of blood was performed with Illumina NovaSeq (San Diego, CA, USA). Samples with completed phenotyping, monitoring, and RNA extraction by March 31, 2020, were included in the discovery cohort; samples collected or completed thereafter and by Oct 27, 2021, constituted the Rapid Paediatric Infection Diagnosis in Sepsis (RAPIDS) internal validation cohort. An external validation cohort was assembled from RNA sequencing gene expression count data from the observational European Childhood Life-threatening Infectious Disease Study (EUCLIDS), which recruited children with severe infection in nine European countries between 2012 and 2016. Feature selection approaches were applied to derive novel gene signatures for disease class (bacterial vs viral infection) and disease severity (presence vs absence of organ dysfunction 24 h post-sampling). The primary endpoint was the presence of organ dysfunction 24 h after blood sampling in the presence of confirmed bacterial versus viral infection. Gene signature performance is reported as area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) and 95% CI. FINDINGS: Between Sept 25, 2017, and Oct 27, 2021, 907 patients were enrolled. Blood samples from 595 patients were included in the discovery cohort, and samples from 312 children were included in the RAPIDS validation cohort. We derived a ten-gene disease
AU - Schlapbach,LJ
AU - Ganesamoorthy,D
AU - Wilson,C
AU - Raman,S
AU - George,S
AU - Snelling,PJ
AU - Phillips,N
AU - Irwin,A
AU - Sharp,N
AU - Le,Marsney R
AU - Chavan,A
AU - Hempenstall,A
AU - Bialasiewicz,S
AU - MacDonald,AD
AU - Grimwood,K
AU - Kling,JC
AU - McPherson,SJ
AU - Blumenthal,A
AU - Kaforou,M
AU - Levin,M
AU - Herberg,JA
AU - Gibbons,KS
AU - Coin,LJM
AU - EUCLIDS,consortium
AU - RAPIDS,Study Group
DO - 10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00017-8
EP - 338
PY - 2024///
SP - 325
TI - Host gene expression signatures to identify infection type and organ dysfunction in children evaluated for sepsis: a multicentre cohort study.
T2 - Lancet Child Adolesc Health
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00017-8
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38513681
VL - 8
ER -