Open AccessRapid identification of pathogens from positive blood culture bottles with the MinION nanopore sequencer
Author(s) -
Sae Ashikawa,
Norihito Tarumoto,
Kazuo Imai,
Jun Sakai,
Masahiro Kodana,
Tomohiro Kawamura,
Kenji Ikebuchi,
Takashi Murakami,
Kotaro Mitsutake,
Shigefumi Maesaki,
Takeshi Maeda
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/jmm.0.000855
Subject(s) - minion , nanopore sequencing , microbiology and biotechnology , identification (biology) , blood culture , nanopore , biology , virology , computational biology , genetics , gene , genome , antibiotics , botany , materials science , nanotechnology
Bloodstream infections are major causes of morbidity and mortality that lead to prolonged hospital stays and higher medical costs. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the MinION nanopore sequencer for the identification of the most dominant pathogens in positive blood culture bottles.