Metagenome of a Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Sample from a Confirmed COVID-19 Case in Quito, Ecuador, Obtained Using Oxford Nanopore MinION Technology

Sully Márquez; Belén Prado-Vivar; Juan José Guadalupe; Bernardo Gutierrez; Mónica Becerra-Wong; Manuel Jibaja; Milton Tobar; Verónica Barragán; Patricio Rojas-Silva; Josefina Coloma; Gabriel Trueba; Michelle Grunauer; Paúl Cárdenas

doi:10.1128/MRA.00996-20

Metagenome of a Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Sample from a Confirmed COVID-19 Case in Quito, Ecuador, Obtained Using Oxford Nanopore MinION Technology

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 8;9(41):e00996-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00996-20.

Authors

Sully Márquez¹, Belén Prado-Vivar^{1

2}, Juan José Guadalupe³, Bernardo Gutierrez^{3

4}, Mónica Becerra-Wong¹, Manuel Jibaja⁵, Milton Tobar⁵, Verónica Barragán¹, Patricio Rojas-Silva¹, Josefina Coloma⁶, Gabriel Trueba¹, Michelle Grunauer^{7

8}, Paúl Cárdenas^{9

2}

Affiliations

¹ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, COCIBA, Instituto de Microbiología, Quito, Ecuador.
² Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Centro de Bioinformática, Quito, Ecuador.
³ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, COCIBA, Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Quito, Ecuador.
⁴ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁵ Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Eugenio Espejo, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶ University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁷ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Escuela de Medicina, COCSA, Quito, Ecuador.
⁸ Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital de los Valles, Quito, Ecuador.
⁹ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, COCIBA, Instituto de Microbiología, Quito, Ecuador pacardenas@usfq.edu.ec.

Abstract

We report the metagenome analysis of a bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid sample from a confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case in Quito, Ecuador. Sequencing was performed using MinION technology.

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