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ArticleScientific reports2018

Nanopore sequencing as a revolutionary diagnostic tool for porcine viral enteric disease complexes identifies porcine kobuvirus as an important enteric virus.

Sebastiaan Theuns, Bert Vanmechelen, Quinten Bernaert, Ward Deboutte, Marilou Vandenhole, Leen Beller, Jelle Matthijnssens, Piet Maes, Hans J Nauwynck

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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59citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sebastiaan TheunsGhent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Laboratory of Virology, Merelbeke, Belgium. sebastiaan.theuns@ugent.be.ORCID 0000-0001-7363-4846
Bert VanmechelenKU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8350-4356
Quinten BernaertGhent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Laboratory of Virology, Merelbeke, Belgium.
Ward DeboutteKU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Viral Metagenomics, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium.
Marilou VandenholeGhent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Laboratory of Virology, Merelbeke, Belgium.
Leen BellerKU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Viral Metagenomics, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium.
Jelle MatthijnssensKU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Viral Metagenomics, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-1188-9733
Piet MaesKU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium.
Hans J NauwynckGhent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Laboratory of Virology, Merelbeke, Belgium.
Rega Institute for Medical Research · BEGhent University · BE

Funding

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Research Foundation Flanders) 1S28617NFonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Research Foundation Flanders) 1S61618N
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enteric diseases in swine are often caused by different pathogens and thus metagenomics are a useful tool for diagnostics. The capacities of nanopore sequencing for viral diagnostics were investigated here. First, cell culture-grown porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and rotavirus A were pooled and sequenced on a MinION. Reads were already detected at 7 seconds after start of sequencing, resulting in high sequencing depths (19.2 to 103.5X) after 3 h. Next, diarrheic feces of a one-week-old piglet was analyzed. Almost all reads (99%) belonged to bacteriophages, which may have reshaped the piglet's microbiome. Contigs matched Bacteroides, Escherichia and Enterococcus phages. Moreover, porcine kobuvirus was discovered in the feces for the first time in Belgium. Suckling piglets shed kobuvirus from one week of age, but an association between peak of viral shedding (10

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AnimalsAnimals, NewbornBelgiumDiarrheaFecesFollow-Up StudiesKobuvirusLongitudinal StudiesNanoporesPhylogenyPicornaviridae InfectionsRetrospective StudiesRNA, ViralSequence Analysis, DNASwineSwine DiseasesRNA, Viral

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PMID29959349
PMCPMC6026206
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