The Advantages of Next-generation Sequencing Technology in the Detection of Different Sources of Abscess

We reported the apply of next-generation sequencing to identify a series of different sources of abscess cases indicating next-generation sequencing could offer unbiased sequencing and rapid diagnosis of pathogens. For the cases of having positive culture results, the metagenome analysis results were all consistent with those of conventional culture examination. Moreover, NGS could detect multiple pathogenic microorganisms and demonstrated dramatically decrease reads of identification pathogens in recovery phase.

Source: Journal of Infection - August 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ling-Yun Guo, Wen-Ya Feng, Jie Dong, Xin Guo, Bing Liu, Gang Liu Source Type: research