The sensitivity of massively parallel sequencing for detecting candidate infectious agents associated with human tissue

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Moore, Richard A ^a   Warren, René L ^a   Freeman, J Douglas ^a   Gustavsen, Julia A ^b   Chénard, Caroline ^b   Friedman, Jan M ^c   Suttle, Curtis A ^b   Zhao, Yongjun ^a   Holt, Robert A ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFECTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METHODOLOGY; RNA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RNA VIRUSES;

BASE SEQUENCE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INFECTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955930966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019838     Document Type: Article

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