Emergence of Tropheryma whipplei detection in respiratory samples by next-generation sequencing: Pathogen or innocent bystander?

Fanfan Xing, Stephanie W Lo, Min Liu, Chaowen Deng, Haiyan Ye, Linlin Sun, Jin Yang, Simon K F Lo, Susanna K P Lau, Patrick C Y Woo

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)154-225
Number of pages72
JournalThe Journal of Infection
Volume86
Issue number2
Early online date9 Dec 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Feb 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen [SZSM201911014]; and the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE-111-S-023-A) in Taiwan.

Funding Information:
We are grateful to the staff at the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control and the Department of Respiratory Medicine, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital; and the Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong. This work was partly supported by Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen [SZSM201911014]; and the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE-111-S-023-A) in Taiwan.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are included
in this article and available from the corresponding author upon
reasonable requests.

Keywords

  • Humans
  • Tropheryma/genetics
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Whipple Disease/diagnosis
  • Respiratory tract
  • Next-generation sequencing
  • Laboratory diagnosis
  • Tropheryma whipplei

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Microbiology (medical)
  • Infectious Diseases

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