Metagenomic sequencing complements routine diagnostics in identifying viral pathogens in lung transplant recipients with unknown etiology of respiratory infection

BACKGROUND: Lung transplant patients are a vulnerable group of immunosuppressed patients that are prone to frequent respiratory infections. We studied 60 episodes of respiratory symptoms in 71 lung transplant patients. Almost half of these episodes were of unknown infectious etiology despite extensi...

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Publié dans:PLoS One
Auteurs principaux: Lewandowska, Dagmara W., Schreiber, Peter W., Schuurmans, Macé M., Ruehe, Bettina, Zagordi, Osvaldo, Bayard, Cornelia, Greiner, Michael, Geissberger, Fabienne D., Capaul, Riccarda, Zbinden, Andrea, Böni, Jürg, Benden, Christian, Mueller, Nicolas J., Trkola, Alexandra, Huber, Michael
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2017
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441588/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542207
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177340
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