Open AccessRapid Detection and Identification of Infectious Pathogens Based on High-throughput Sequencing
Author(s) -
Peixiang Ni,
Xin Ding,
Yinxin Zhang,
Xue Yao,
Ruixia Sun,
Peng Wang,
Yanping Gong,
Jiali Zhou,
Dongfang Li,
Honglong Wu,
Xin Yi,
Ling Yang,
Yun Long
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chinese medical journal/chinese medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2542-5641
pISSN - 0366-6999
DOI - 10.4103/0366-6999.154281
Subject(s) - polymerase chain reaction , infectious agent , medicine , intensive care unit , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , biology , computational biology , intensive care medicine , disease , pathology , gene , biochemistry
The dilemma of pathogens identification in patients with unidentified clinical symptoms such as fever of unknown origin exists, which not only poses a challenge to both the diagnostic and therapeutic process by itself, but also to expert physicians.