Development and proof-of-concept demonstration of a clinical metagenomics method for the rapid detection of bloodstream infection

• Main Authors: Lluis Moragues-Solanas (Author), Thanh Le-Viet (Author), Elinor McSorley (Author), Carl Halford (Author), Daniel S. Lockhart (Author), Alp Aydin (Author), Gemma L. Kay (Author), Ngozi Elumogo (Author), William Mullen (Author), Justin O'Grady (Author), Matthew W. Gilmour (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The timely and accurate diagnosis of bloodstream infection (BSI) is critical for patient management. With longstanding challenges for routine blood culture, metagenomics is a promising approach to rapidly provide sequence-based detection and characterisation of bloodborne bacteri...