Metagenomic Analysis of Human Diarrhea: Viral Detection and Discovery

Worldwide, approximately 1.8 million children die from diarrhea annually, and millions more suffer multiple episodes of nonfatal diarrhea. On average, in up to 40% of cases, no etiologic agent can be identified. The advent of metagenomic sequencing has enabled systematic and unbiased characterizatio...

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Main Authors: Finkbeiner, Stacy R., Allred, Adam F., Tarr, Phillip I., Klein, Eileen J., Kirkwood, Carl D., Wang, David
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2008
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2290972/