Liquid biopsy for infectious diseases: Sequencing of cell-free plasma to detect pathogen DNA in patients with invasive fungal disease
D. K. Hong, T. A. Blauwkamp, M. Kertesz, S. Bercovici, C. Truong, N. Banaei
This paper describes a next-generation sequencing assay that detects pathogen-derived cell-free DNA in blood to diagnose invasive fungal infections non-invasively.
bioRxiv · Jun 20, 2018Microbiology