Next-generation sequencing: insights to advance clinical investigations of the microbiome

CR Wensel, JL Pluznick, SL Salzberg… - The Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has advanced our understanding of the
human microbiome by allowing for the discovery and characterization of unculturable …

Next generation sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes: challenges, applications and opportunities

M Chiara, AM D'Erchia, C Gissi… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Various next generation sequencing (NGS) based strategies have been successfully used in
the recent past for tracing origins and understanding the evolution of infectious agents …

Adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with acute severe hepatitis

V Servellita, A Sotomayor Gonzalez, DM Lamson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
As of August 2022, clusters of acute severe hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children have
been reported from 35 countries, including the USA,. Previous studies have found human …

Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids

W Gu, X Deng, M Lee, YD Sucu, S Arevalo, D Stryke… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
We developed a metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) test using cell-free DNA
from body fluids to identify pathogens. The performance of mNGS testing of 182 body fluids …

Comparison between 16S rRNA and shotgun sequencing data for the taxonomic characterization of the gut microbiota

F Durazzi, C Sala, G Castellani, G Manfreda… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In this paper we compared taxonomic results obtained by metataxonomics (16S rRNA gene
sequencing) and metagenomics (whole shotgun metagenomic sequencing) to investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Massively multiplexed nucleic acid detection with Cas13

CM Ackerman, C Myhrvold, SG Thakku, CA Freije… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The great majority of globally circulating pathogens go undetected, undermining patient care
and hindering outbreak preparedness and response. To enable routine surveillance and …

Nanopore metagenomics enables rapid clinical diagnosis of bacterial lower respiratory infection

T Charalampous, GL Kay, H Richardson, A Aydin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The gold standard for clinical diagnosis of bacterial lower respiratory infections (LRIs) is
culture, which has poor sensitivity and is too slow to guide early, targeted antimicrobial …

New opportunities in plant microbiome engineering for increasing agricultural sustainability under stressful conditions

MS Afridi, MA Javed, S Ali, FHV De Medeiros… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plant microbiome (or phytomicrobiome) engineering (PME) is an anticipated untapped
alternative strategy that could be exploited for plant growth, health and productivity under …

Full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of human gut microbiota using MinION™ nanopore sequencing confers species-level resolution

Y Matsuo, S Komiya, Y Yasumizu, Y Yasuoka… - BMC microbiology, 2021 - Springer
Background Species-level genetic characterization of complex bacterial communities has
important clinical applications in both diagnosis and treatment. Amplicon sequencing of the …

Genomic surveillance reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into Northern California

X Deng, W Gu, S Federman, L Du Plessis, OG Pybus… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally, with> 365,000 cases in …