The sensitivity of massively parallel sequencing for detecting candidate infectious agents associated with human tissue.

Massively parallel sequencing technology now provides the opportunity to sample the transcriptome of a given tissue comprehensively. Transcripts at only a few copies per cell are readily detectable, allowing the discovery of low abundance viral and bacterial transcripts in human tissue samples. Here...

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Main Authors: Richard A Moore, René L Warren, J Douglas Freeman, Julia A Gustavsen, Caroline Chénard, Jan M Friedman, Curtis A Suttle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert A Holt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3094400?pdf=render