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Record W4409245817 · doi:10.1099/acmi.0.000938.v3

Comparative genomics analysis of six Cutibacterium acnes strains isolated from contaminated platelet concentrates

2025· article· en· W4409245817 on OpenAlex
Annika Flint, Dilini Kumaran, Kelly Weedmark, Franco Pagotto, Sandra Ramírez‐Arcos

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueAccess Microbiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicStreptococcal Infections and Treatments
Canadian institutionsCanadian Blood ServicesUniversity of OttawaHealth Canada
FundersHealth CanadaCanadian Blood Services
KeywordsVirulenceBiologyGenomeMicrobiologyMobile genetic elementsContaminationWhole genome sequencingBacteriaWhole bloodGeneImmunologyGenetics

Abstract

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Cutibacterium acnes is a bacterial skin commensal that is often isolated during routine testing of blood products like platelet concentrates (PCs). Due to the slow-growing nature of this bacterium in culture media, C. acnes contaminated PCs are often transfused into vulnerable patients before retrieval of these units can be initiated. This study aimed at obtaining the whole-genome sequence of six C. acnes isolates derived from contaminated PCs, comparing and assessing their genetic backgrounds. Furthermore, the whole genomes of the PC isolates were compared to clinical isolates obtained from different sites and types of infection. The results indicate that these PC isolates assessed belong to four phylotypes, namely IA, IB, II and III. Whole-genome comparisons identified differences in the virulence profiles of the isolates and provide a foundation for future studies aimed at evaluating the risk to transfusion patients by determining whether the expression of virulence factors is impacted in the PC storage environment.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.289
Threshold uncertainty score0.653

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.345
Teacher spread0.318 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it