Differentiation and identification of commensal and pathogenic oral bacteria at strain level using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy

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  • Katharina Anna Frings
  • Rumjhum Mukherjee
  • Vivien Schulze
  • Nils Heine
  • Nicolas Debener
  • Janina Bahnemann
  • Szymon Piotr Szafrański
  • Meike Stiesch
  • Katharina Doll-Nikutta
  • Maria Leilani Torres-Mapa
  • Alexander Heisterkamp

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  • NIFE - Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development
  • Hannover Medical School (MHH)
  • University of Augsburg
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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3198-3207
Number of pages10
JournalANALYST
Volume150
Issue number14
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jun 2025

Abstract

The correct identification of different bacteria is a critical task in clinical applications and basic research especially in the oral cavity which has a complex bacterial community. Complementary to a variety of phenotyping and genotyping methods, we propose FTIR spectroscopy as a fast and non-destructive technique for accurate bacterial identification. This technique can be used to investigate the chemical makeup of a given sample and also allows for bacterial classification at strain level. In this work, we investigate the ability of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to identify different oral bacteria from known laboratory stains as well as strains from patient-derived samples. Using this technique, six measured species could be classified with high accuracy (>97%) using chemometric models. Furthermore, the model which was only trained with laboratory strains could still correctly identify the patient-derived strains at the genus level. These results open the possibility of constructing a simplified tailored classification model based only on a target species and few other representative species, while still being able to distinguish the target species from a much larger number of other bacterial species for application to oral microbial communities.

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Differentiation and identification of commensal and pathogenic oral bacteria at strain level using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. / Frings, Katharina Anna; Mukherjee, Rumjhum; Schulze, Vivien et al.
In: ANALYST, Vol. 150, No. 14, 17.06.2025, p. 3198-3207.

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Frings, KA, Mukherjee, R, Schulze, V, Heine, N, Debener, N, Bahnemann, J, Szafrański, SP, Stiesch, M, Doll-Nikutta, K, Torres-Mapa, ML & Heisterkamp, A 2025, 'Differentiation and identification of commensal and pathogenic oral bacteria at strain level using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy', ANALYST, vol. 150, no. 14, pp. 3198-3207. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5an00165j
Frings, K. A., Mukherjee, R., Schulze, V., Heine, N., Debener, N., Bahnemann, J., Szafrański, S. P., Stiesch, M., Doll-Nikutta, K., Torres-Mapa, M. L., & Heisterkamp, A. (2025). Differentiation and identification of commensal and pathogenic oral bacteria at strain level using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. ANALYST, 150(14), 3198-3207. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5an00165j
Frings KA, Mukherjee R, Schulze V, Heine N, Debener N, Bahnemann J et al. Differentiation and identification of commensal and pathogenic oral bacteria at strain level using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. ANALYST. 2025 Jun 17;150(14):3198-3207. doi: 10.1039/d5an00165j
Frings, Katharina Anna ; Mukherjee, Rumjhum ; Schulze, Vivien et al. / Differentiation and identification of commensal and pathogenic oral bacteria at strain level using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy. In: ANALYST. 2025 ; Vol. 150, No. 14. pp. 3198-3207.
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