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Multidimensional analysis of the host response reveals prognostic and pathogen-driven immune subtypes among adults with sepsis in Uganda

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CRITICAL CARE
卷 26, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-022-03907-3

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Sepsis; Biomarkers; Tuberculosis; High-throughput nucleotide sequencing; Uganda; Africa

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  1. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences [UL1TR001873]
  2. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [F32AI147528]
  3. MakCHS-Berkeley-Yale Pulmonary Complications of AIDS Research Training (PART) Program from the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health [D43TW009607]
  4. Stony Wold-Herbert Fund
  5. Potts Memorial Foundation
  6. Thrasher Research Fund
  7. Burroughs Wellcome Fund/American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  8. DELTAS Africa Initiative [107743]
  9. African Academy of Sciences (AAS)
  10. Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa [AESA]
  11. New Partnership for Africa's Development Planning and Coordinating Agency [NEPAD Agency]
  12. Wellcome Trust [107743]
  13. UK Government

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This study identified two immune subtypes among 288 adults hospitalized with sepsis in Uganda, characterized by differential activation of pro-inflammatory innate and adaptive immune pathways, T-cell exhaustion, metabolic reprogramming, and association with severe HIV-associated tuberculosis, extensive organ dysfunction, worse functional outcomes, and higher 30-day mortality. These results emphasize the unique features of sepsis immunopathology in sub-Saharan Africa and highlight the importance of developing more biologically-informed treatment strategies incorporating immunomodulation in the region.
Background The global burden of sepsis is concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where severe infections disproportionately affect young, HIV-infected adults and high-burden pathogens are unique. In this context, poor understanding of sepsis immunopathology represents a crucial barrier to development of locally-effective treatment strategies. We sought to determine inter-individual immunologic heterogeneity among adults hospitalized with sepsis in a sub-Saharan African setting, and characterize associations between immune subtypes, infecting pathogens, and clinical outcomes. Methods Among a prospective observational cohort of 288 adults hospitalized with suspected sepsis in Uganda, we applied machine learning methods to 14 soluble host immune mediators, reflective of key domains of sepsis immunopathology (innate and adaptive immune activation, endothelial dysfunction, fibrinolysis), to identify immune subtypes in randomly-split discovery (N = 201) and internal validation (N = 87) sub-cohorts. In parallel, we applied similar methods to whole-blood RNA-sequencing data from a consecutive subset of patients (N = 128) to identify transcriptional subtypes, which we characterized using biological pathway and immune cell-type deconvolution analyses. Results Unsupervised clustering consistently identified two immune subtypes defined by differential activation of pro-inflammatory innate and adaptive immune pathways, with transcriptional evidence of concomitant CD56(-)/CD16( +) NK-cell expansion, T-cell exhaustion, and oxidative-stress and hypoxia-induced metabolic and cell-cycle reprogramming in the hyperinflammatory subtype. Immune subtypes defined by greater pro-inflammatory immune activation, T-cell exhaustion, and metabolic reprogramming were consistently associated with a high-prevalence of severe and often disseminated HIV-associated tuberculosis, as well as more extensive organ dysfunction, worse functional outcomes, and higher 30-day mortality. Conclusions Our results highlight unique host- and pathogen-driven features of sepsis immunopathology in sub-Saharan Africa, including the importance of severe HIV-associated tuberculosis, and reinforce the need to develop more biologically-informed treatment strategies in the region, particularly those incorporating immunomodulation.

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