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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2024

Closing the gap: Oxford Nanopore Technologies R10 sequencing allows comparable results to Illumina sequencing for SNP-based outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens.

Bert Bogaerts, An Van den Bossche, Bavo Verhaegen, Laurence Delbrassinne, Wesley Mattheus, Stéphanie Nouws, Maxime Godfroid, Stefan Hoffman, Nancy H C Roosens, Sigrid C J De Keersmaecker and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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52citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
16.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bert BogaertsTransversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2806-4033
An Van den BosscheBacterial Diseases, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Bavo VerhaegenFoodborne Pathogens, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Laurence DelbrassinneFoodborne Pathogens, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Wesley MattheusBacterial Diseases, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Stéphanie NouwsTransversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Maxime GodfroidTransversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Stefan HoffmanTransversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Nancy H C RoosensTransversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Sigrid C J De KeersmaeckerTransversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Kevin VannesteTransversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0009-0000-4051-0628
Sciensano (Belgium) · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole-genome sequencing has become the method of choice for bacterial outbreak investigation, with most clinical and public health laboratories currently routinely using short-read Illumina sequencing. Recently, long-read Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing has gained prominence and may offer advantages over short-read sequencing, particularly with the recent introduction of the R10 chemistry, which promises much lower error rates than the R9 chemistry. However, limited information is available on its performance for bacterial single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based outbreak investigation. We present an open-source workflow, Prokaryotic Awesome variant Calling Utility (PACU) (https://github.com/BioinformaticsPlatformWIV-ISP/PACU), for constructing SNP phylogenies using Illumina and/or ONT R9/R10 sequencing data. The workflow was evaluated using outbreak data sets of Shiga toxin-producing

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksPolymorphism, Single NucleotideBacteriaGenome, BacterialHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansListeria monocytogenesListeriosisNanoporesNanopore SequencingPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNAWhole Genome Sequencingilluminananopore sequencingoutbreakpublic healthwhole-genome sequencing

Identifiers

PMID38441926
PMCPMC11077942
OpenAlexW4392455474

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