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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.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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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