Development of a clinical metagenomics workflow for the diagnosis of wound infections

• Main Authors: Carl Halford (Author), Thanh Le Viet (Author), Katie Edge (Author), Paul Russell (Author), Nathan Moore (Author), Fiona Trim (Author), Lluis Moragues-Solanas (Author), Roman Lukaszewski (Author), Simon A. Weller (Author), Matthew Gilmour (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Wound infections are a common complication of injuries negatively impacting the patient's recovery, causing tissue damage, delaying wound healing, and possibly leading to the spread of the infection beyond the wound site. The current gold-standard diagnostic methods based on...