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Genome sequencing in clinical microbiology

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High-throughput sequencing is being adopted to characterize microbial pathogens and track their evolution and spread.

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Figure 1: Clinical microbiological laboratory workflow, now and in the future.

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  1. Jacqueline Z-M Chan, Mark J Pallen, Beryl Oppenheim and Chrystala Constantinidou: All authors are at the Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, UK.

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  1. Mark J. Pallen, Beryl Oppenheim and Chrystala Constantinidou are also at the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.,

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M.J.P. was a winner of an Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine in the European PGM grant program.

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Chan, JM., Pallen, M., Oppenheim, B. et al. Genome sequencing in clinical microbiology. Nat Biotechnol 30, 1068–1071 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2410

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