51. Caution is needed in interpreting HIV transmission chains by ultradeep sequencing
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Stéphane Hué, Vincent Calvez, Francis Barin, Marc Wirden, Ruxandra Calin, Sophie Sayon, Anne-Geneviève Marcelin, Eve Todesco, Christine Katlama, Anne Simon, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (iPLESP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de virologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Service des maladies infectieuses et tropicales [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Service de médecine interne [CHU Pitié-Salpétrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de bactériologie-virologie [Tours], Hôpital Bretonneau-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), Morphogénèse et antigénicité du VIH et du virus des Hépatites (MAVIVH - U1259 Inserm - CHRU Tours ), Université de Tours-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU TOURS), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours)-Université de Tours (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
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International audience; Objectives: Molecular epidemiology is applied to various aspects of HIV transmission analyses. With ultradeep sequencing (UDS), in-depth characterization of transmission episodes involving minority variants is permitted. We explored HIV-1 epidemiological linkage and evaluated characteristics of transmission dynamics and transmitted drug resistance (TDR) detection through the added value of UDS.Design: HIV pol gene fragments were sequenced by UDS and Sanger sequencing on samples of 70 HIV-1-infected, treatment-naive recently diagnosed MSM.Methods: Pairwise genetic distances and maximum likelihood phylogenies were computed. Transmission events were identified as clades with branch support at least 70% and intraclade genetic difference less than 4.5%. TDR mutations were recognized from the TDR consensus list. Transmission directionality, directness and inoculum size were inferred from tree topologies.Results: Both datasets concurred in the identification of seven transmission pairs and one cluster of three patients. With UDS, direction of transmission was inferred in four out of eight chains. Evidence for multiple founder viruses was found in two out of eight chains. No transmission of minority-resistant variants was evidenced. TDR mutations prevalence in protease and reverse transcriptase fragments was 4.3% with Sanger sequencing and 18.6% with UDS.Conclusion: Although Sanger sequencing and UDS identified the same transmission chains, UDS provided additional information on founder viruses, direction of transmission and levels of TDR. Nevertheless, topology of clusters was not always consistent across gene fragments, calling for a cautious interpretation of the data. Moreover, unobserved intermediary links cannot be excluded. Phylogenetic analysis use as a forensic technique for HIV transmission investigations is risky.
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- 2019