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Massaro A, Tata A, Pallante I, Bertazzo V, Bottazzari M, Paganini L, Dall'Ava B, Stefani A, De Buck J, Piro R, Pozzato N. Metabolic signature of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infected and infectious dairy cattle by integrating nuclear magnetic resonance analysis and blood indices. Front Vet Sci 2023; 10:1146626. [PMID: 37138915 PMCID: PMC10150450 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1146626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
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The early diagnosis of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is one of the current challenges of farmers and veterinarians. This work aimed to investigate the changes in metabolic levels associated with natural MAP infection in infected and infectious dairy cattle. The study included sera from 23 infectious/seropositive, 10 infected but non-infectious/seronegative, and 26 negative Holstein Fresian cattle. The samples were selected from a collection of samples gathered during a prospective study. The samples were analyzed by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and routine blood chemistry. The blood indices and the 1H NMR data were concatenated by low-level data fusion, resulting in a unique global fingerprint. Afterwards, the merged dataset was statistically analyzed by the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), which is a shrinkage and selection method for supervised learning. Finally, pathways analysis was performed to get more insights on the possible dysregulated metabolic pathways. The LASSO model achieved, in a 10 time repeated 5-fold cross-validation, an overall accuracy of 91.5% with high values of sensitivity and specificity in classifying correctly the negative, infected, and infectious animals. The pathway analysis revealed MAP-infected cattle have increased tyrosine metabolism and enhanced phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis. The enhanced synthesis and degradation of ketone bodies was observed both in infected and infectious cattle. In conclusion, fusing data from multiple sources has proved to be useful in exploring the altered metabolic pathways in MAP infection and potentially diagnosing negative animals within paratuberculosis-infected herds.
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Affiliation(s)
- Andrea Massaro
- Laboratorio di Chimica Sperimentale, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Vicenza, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Chimica Sperimentale, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Vicenza, Italy
- *Correspondence: Alessandra Tata
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- Laboratorio di Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Vicenza, Italy
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- Medicina di Laboratorio, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Diagnostica Clinica e Sierologia di Piano, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Verona, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Diagnostica Clinica e Sierologia di Piano, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Verona, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Diagnostica Clinica e Sierologia di Piano, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Verona, Italy
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- Medicina di Laboratorio, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Laboratorio di Chimica Sperimentale, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Vicenza, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Vicenza, Italy
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Tata A, Pallante I, Massaro A, Miano B, Bottazzari M, Fiorini P, Dal Prà M, Paganini L, Stefani A, De Buck J, Piro R, Pozzato N. Serum Metabolomic Profiles of Paratuberculosis Infected and Infectious Dairy Cattle by Ambient Mass Spectrometry. Front Vet Sci 2021; 7:625067. [PMID: 33553289 PMCID: PMC7854907 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.625067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causative agent of paratuberculosis [Johne's disease (JD)], a chronic disease that causes substantial economic losses in the dairy cattle industry. The long incubation period means clinical signs are visible in animals only after years, and some cases remain undetected because of the subclinical manifestation of the disease. Considering the complexity of JD pathogenesis, animals can be classified as infected, infectious, or affected. The major limitation of currently available diagnostic tests is their failure in detecting infected non-infectious animals. The present study aimed to identify metabolic markers associated with infected and infectious stages of JD. Direct analysis in real time coupled with high resolution mass spectrometry (DART-HRMS) was, hence, applied in a prospective study where cohorts of heifers and cows were followed up annually for 2–4 years. The animals' infectious status was assigned based on a positive result of both serum ELISA and fecal PCR, or culture. The same animals were retrospectively assigned to the status of infected at the previous sampling for which all JD tests were negative. Stored sera from 10 infected animals and 17 infectious animals were compared with sera from 20 negative animals from the same herds. Two extraction protocols and two (-/+) ionization modes were tested. The three most informative datasets out of the four were merged by a mid-level data fusion approach and submitted to partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). Compared to the MAP negative subjects, metabolomic analysis revealed the m/z signals of isobutyrate, dimethylethanolamine, palmitic acid, and rhamnitol were more intense in infected animals. Both infected and infectious animals showed higher relative intensities of tryptamine and creatine/creatinine as well as lower relative abundances of urea, glutamic acid and/or pyroglutamic acid. These metabolic differences could indicate altered fat metabolism and reduced energy intake in both infected and infectious cattle. In conclusion, DART-HRMS coupled to a mid-level data fusion approach allowed the molecular features that identified preclinical stages of JD to be teased out.
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- Alessandra Tata
- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Production Animal Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro, Italy
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Pozzato N, Gwozdz J, Gastaldelli M, Capello K, Dal Ben C, Stefani E. Evaluation of a rapid and inexpensive liquid culture system for the detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in bovine faeces. J Microbiol Methods 2011; 84:413-7. [PMID: 21256880 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2011.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2010] [Revised: 12/20/2010] [Accepted: 01/03/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the etiologic agent of paratuberculosis, a chronic granulomatous enteric disease of ruminants. MAP detection by faecal culture provides the definitive diagnosis of the infection. Automated liquid systems for MAP culture are more sensitive and rapid than culture on solid media, but they are expensive and require specialised equipment. In this study, a non-automated culture method using a modified Middlebrook 7H9 liquid medium (7H9+) was compared with Herrold's solid medium (HEYM) and direct real-time PCR on dairy cattle faeces. MAP growth in 7H9+ was monitored weekly by real-time PCR until the 12th week post-inoculation. The analytical sensitivity of the three methods was evaluated using faecal samples from a healthy cow spiked with ten-fold dilutions of MAP organisms (10(4)-10(-1)) and naturally MAP-infected faeces serially diluted 1 to 10 in negative faecal samples. The limits of detection of the solid culture and direct real-time PCR were 10(2) and 10(3)MAP/g, respectively. In comparison, the 7H9+ culture revealed as few as 1MAP/g. A marked reduction in time to detection of the pathogen, compared with HEYM culture, was obtained. In addition, the three methods were applied to environmental faecal samples collected from a high- and a low-prevalence herd. The culture in 7H9+ showed to be the most sensitive test in the low-prevalence herd and provided faster results than HEYM. In the high-prevalence herd the three methods showed the same sensitivity and the real-time PCR had the shortest turnaround time. In conclusion, the use of 7H9+ for MAP-detection from cattle faeces maximizes diagnostic sensitivity and reduces turnaround time and, therefore, could replace culture in solid medium. Hence, we propose a two-step protocol for the assessment of MAP faecal excretion based on: 1) direct real-time PCR on all samples; and 2) inoculation of negative samples into 7H9+ and analysis after 3 and, if necessary, 6weeks by real-time PCR.
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- Nicola Pozzato
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Sezione di Verona, Via San Giacomo 5, 37135 Verona, Italy
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