False positives complicate ancient pathogen identifications using high-throughput shotgun sequencing

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Campana, Michael G ^a,b   Robles García, Nelly ^c   Rühli, Frank J ^a,b   Tuross, Noreen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; False positive; High throughput sequencing; Pathogen; True single molecule sequencing

Indexed keywords

YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOME; MEXICO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897630916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-111     Document Type: Article

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