Molecular Diagnostics of Bacterial Infections and Antibiotic Resistance in Blood Samples and Rectal Swabs Using Advanced NGS Sequencing Methods

Molecular Diagnostics of Bacterial Infections and Antibiotic Resistance in Blood Samples and Rectal Swabs Using Advanced NGS Sequencing Methods

This is an experimental study without drug and device, non-profit, on biological samples stored at the Tropica Biobank of the DITM. The aim of the project is to verify the performance of NGS-based assays, which can be used in the field of microbiology. The clinical evaluation investigations of NGS technology will be conducted on an adequate number of clinical blood samples and rectal swabs. The analyzes will be compared with the standard microbiology methods used in the DITM diagnostic routine.

Inclusion criteria:

• Samples of patients for whom blood culture and Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) surveillance tests were carried out in rectal swabs at the IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital
• Samples for which the Information and consent to the conservation of biological samples for research purposes has been signed at the Tropica Biobank or
• Samples for which, after all reasonable efforts, it was not possible to obtain the signature of the Information and consent to the conservation of biological samples for research purposes at the Tropica Biobank (e.g. patients in intensive care, immobilized patients unable to sign or with serious alterations of consciousness).

Exclusion criteria:

• Absence of data relating to positivity or negativity to the germs of interest
• Absence of stored residual material