Unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing of blood from hospitalized febrile children in Gabon

José Francisco Fernandes; Florian Laubscher; Jana Held; Isabella Eckerle; Mylène Docquier; Martin Peter Grobusch; Benjamin Mordmüller; Laurent Kaiser; Samuel Cordey

doi:10.1080/22221751.2020.1772015

Unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing of blood from hospitalized febrile children in Gabon

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Dec;9(1):1242-1244. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1772015.

Authors

José Francisco Fernandes^{1

2

3

4}, Florian Laubscher^{5

6}, Jana Held^{1

2

3}, Isabella Eckerle^{5

6

7}, Mylène Docquier^{8

9}, Martin Peter Grobusch^{1

2

3

4}, Benjamin Mordmüller^{1

2

3}, Laurent Kaiser^{5

6

7}, Samuel Cordey^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Albert Schweitzer Hospital Lambaréné, Gabon.
² Institut für Tropenmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Tübingen, Germany.
³ German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory of Virology, University of Geneva Hospitals Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ University of Geneva Medical School Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷ Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases Geneva, Switzerland.
⁸ iGE3 Genomics Platform, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland.
⁹ Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Fever / blood*
Fever / diagnosis
Fever / virology
Gabon
Genome, Viral
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Humans
Infant
Male
Metagenome
Metagenomics
Virus Diseases / blood*
Virus Diseases / diagnosis
Virus Diseases / virology
Viruses / classification
Viruses / genetics
Viruses / isolation & purification*