Metagenomic sequencing complements routine diagnostics in identifying viral pathogens in lung transplant recipients with unknown etiology of respiratory infection

BACKGROUND: Lung transplant patients are a vulnerable group of immunosuppressed patients that are prone to frequent respiratory infections. We studied 60 episodes of respiratory symptoms in 71 lung transplant patients. Almost half of these episodes were of unknown infectious etiology despite extensi...

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Autores principales: Lewandowska, Dagmara W., Schreiber, Peter W., Schuurmans, Macé M., Ruehe, Bettina, Zagordi, Osvaldo, Bayard, Cornelia, Greiner, Michael, Geissberger, Fabienne D., Capaul, Riccarda, Zbinden, Andrea, Böni, Jürg, Benden, Christian, Mueller, Nicolas J., Trkola, Alexandra, Huber, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177340

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177340

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