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. 2018 Oct 23;9(5):e02007-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02007-18

TABLE 2.

BacCapSeq yields higher read counts and genome coverage than UHTS in whole blood spiked with bacterial cells

Species Genome
length (nt)
Coding
region (%)
Load
(copies/ml)
Bacterial read counta
Fold
increase
Genome coverage (%)
BacCapSeq UHTS BacCapSeq UHTS
Bordetella pertussis 4,386,396 89 40,000 90,597 136 694 82 9
4,000 14,858 16 979 39 5
400 1,622 2 725 13 1
40 269 1 508 8 0
Klebsiella pneumoniae 5,333,942 89 40,000 148,203 455 339 92 6
4,000 16,929 40 442 58 1
400 2,771 5 551 18 0
40 522 0 NAb 5 0
Mycobacterium tuberculosis 4,411,532 91 40,000 5,801 25 243 46 0
4,000 845 3 287 9 0
400 14 0 NA 0 0
40 6 0 NA 0 0
Neisseria meningitidis 2,272,360 86 40,000 60,480 115 546 90 6
4,000 6,894 8 908 57 0
400 1,454 1 1,561 23 0
40 151 0 NA 6 0
Streptococcus pneumoniae 2,038,615 86 40,000 3,070 6 506 43 0
4,000 588 1 948 13 0
400 35 0 NA 1 0
40 4 0 NA 0 0
a

Bacterial reads per 1 million reads are shown without applying a cutoff threshold.

b

NA, not applicable because fold increase was not calculated for results with <1 read.