Detection of pathogenic bacteria in the blood from sepsis patients using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing analysis.

Prompt identification of causative pathogenic bacteria is imperative for the treatment of patients suffering from infectious diseases, including sepsis and pneumonia. However, current culture-based methodologies have several drawbacks including their limitation of use to culturable bacterial species...

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Main Authors: Nobuo Watanabe, Kirill Kryukov, So Nakagawa, Junko S Takeuchi, Meiko Takeshita, Yukiko Kirimura, Satomi Mitsuhashi, Toru Ishihara, Hiromichi Aoki, Sadaki Inokuchi, Tadashi Imanishi, Shigeaki Inoue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6093674?pdf=render