Understanding the promises and hurdles of metagenomic next-generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool for infectious diseases

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 778-788

  Simner, Patricia J ^a   Miller, Steven ^b   Carroll, Karen C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Diagnosis; Metagenomics; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; HOST; INFECTION; LABORATORY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 85044099727     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix881     Document Type: Article

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