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Detection of bacterial pathogens from clinical specimens using conventional microbial culture and 16S metagenomics: a comparative study

BACKGROUND: Infectious disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and diagnosis of polymicrobial and fungal infections is increasingly challenging in the clinical setting. Conventionally, molecular detection is still the best method of species identification in clinical samples. However, the l...

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Autores principales: Abayasekara, Lalanika M., Perera, Jennifer, Chandrasekharan, Vishvanath, Gnanam, Vaz S., Udunuwara, Nisala A., Liyanage, Dileepa S., Bulathsinhala, Nuwani E., Adikary, Subhashanie, Aluthmuhandiram, Janith V. S., Thanaseelan, Chrishanthi S., Tharmakulasingam, D. Portia, Karunakaran, Tharaga, Ilango, Janahan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28927397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2727-8