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A Systematic Review of Metagenomic Sequencing as a Clinical Diagnostic Tool for Infectious Diseases

2020-04-02 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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BackgroundMetagenomics has the potential to revolutionise infectious diseases diagnostics, from rapid species and antimicrobial resistance prediction, to finding unrecognised and sometimes untreated infections. Our aim was to summarise all literature on culture-independent metagenomic sequencing to describe the accuracy of species and antimicrobial resistance prediction and, describe the challenges and progress in the field. MethodsWe conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis from eligib...

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