Metagenomic Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections
Shota Nakamura, Norihiro Maeda, Ionut Mihai Miron, Myonsun Yoh, Kaori Izutsu, Chidoh Kataoka, Takeshi Honda, Teruo Yasunaga, Takaaki Nakaya, Jun Kawai, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Toshihiro Horii, and Tetsuya Iida
Author affiliations: Osaka University, Suita, Japan (S. Nakamura, I.M. Miron, M. Yoh, K. Izutsu, C. Kataoka, T. Honda, T. Yasunaga, T. Nakaya, T. Horii, T. Iida); RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan (N. Maeda, J. Kawai, Y. Hayashizaki);
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Figure. Comparison of the organisms from which the best matches for the sequences were derived from a BLASTN (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) search with an expect-value cutoff of 10–5. A) DNA from nondiarrheic fecal sample collected 3 months after patient had recovered. B) DNA from diarrheic fecal sample collected while patient was ill.
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