Clinical metagenomic identification of Balamuthia mandrillaris encephalitis and assembly of the draft genome: the critical need for reference strain sequencing
Alexander L Greninger, Kevin Messacar, Thelma Dunnebacke-Dixon, Samia N Naccache, Scot Federman, Jerome Bouquet, David Mirsky, Yosuke Nomura, Shigeo Yagi, Carol Glaser, Michael Vollmer, Craig A. Press, Bette K Klenschmidt-DeMasters, Samuel R Dominguez, Charles Y Chiu
The paper reports the first draft genome assembly of Balamuthia mandrillaris from a PAM survivor and highlights the need for reference genomes in metagenomic diagnosis.
Genome Medicine · Dec 1, 2015Peer-reviewedGenomics