MicrobiologybioRxiv
16S rRNA amplicon sequencing for epidemiological surveys of bacteria in wildlife: the importance of cleaning post-sequencing data before estimating positivity, prevalence and co-infection
Maxime Galan, Maria Razzauti, Emilie Bard…·Jean Francois Cosson
This paper describes a data cleaning procedure for 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to accurately estimate bacterial positivity, prevalence, and coinfection in wildlife, using rodent samples from Senegal.