ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018
Metagenomics for Clinical Infectious Disease Diagnostics Steps Closer to Reality.
Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Library Preparation and Sequencing Platform Introduce Bias in Metagenomic-Based Characterizations of Microbiomes.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Pooled it
- Comparative Evaluation of Sequencing Technologies for Detecting Antimicrobial Resistance in Bloodstream Infections.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Diagnosis of esophageal pleural fistula via metagenomic next-generation sequencing of pleural effusion: a case report.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Delayed endophthalmitis caused byInternational journal of ophthalmology · 2024Article
- The MetaGens algorithm for metagenomic database lossy compression and subject alignment.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2023Article
- Advances in the Microbiological Diagnosis of Prosthetic Joint Infections.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Combination of Whole Genome Sequencing and Metagenomics for Microbiological Diagnostics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Accurate Diagnosis of Acute HIV Infection with Aseptic Meningitis: A Case Report.Infection and drug resistance · 2022Article
- Next-generation sequencing technology for diagnosis and efficacy evaluation of a patient with visceral leishmaniasis: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
- Precision Pandemic Preparedness: Improving Diagnostics with Metagenomics.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2021Article
- Emerging Options for the Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections and the Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Enlarging the Toolbox Against Antimicrobial Resistance: Aptamers and CRISPR-Cas.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Detection ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2021Article
- Computational Methods for Strain-Level Microbial Detection in Colony and Metagenome Sequencing Data.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Review
- Clinical metagenomics for infectious corneal ulcers: Rags to riches?The ocular surface · 2020Article
- Detection and quantification of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in blood from infected chickens - addressing challenges with detection of DNA from infectious agents in host species with nucleated red blood cells.Journal of medical microbiology · 2019Article
- The Basics and the Advancements in Diagnosis of Bacterial Lower Respiratory Tract Infections.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
Metagenomics approaches based on shotgun next-generation sequencing hold promise for infectious disease diagnostics. Despite substantial challenges that remain, work done over the past few years justifies excitement about the potential for these approaches to transform how clinical pathogen identification and analysis are performed. In an article in this issue of the
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