Microbial Contamination in Next Generation Sequencing: Implications for Sequence-Based Analysis of Clinical Samples

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Strong, Michael J ^a,b   Xu, Guorong ^c   Morici, Lisa ^b   Splinter Bon Durant, Sandra ^d   Baddoo, Melody ^a,b   Lin, Zhen ^a,b   Fewell, Claire ^a,b   Taylor, Christopher M ^e,f   Flemington, Erik K ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f The Research Institute for Children at Children's Hospital New Orleans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE AND NUCLEIC ACID PARAMETERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PATHOGENESIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PSEUDOMONAS; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFECTION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INFECTION;

EID: 84912076762     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004437     Document Type: Article

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