Sebastiaan Theuns│Nanopore seq as a revolutionizing diagnostic tool for viral enteric disease complexes in pig health management from minion Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 3 sec
✓ Published: 09-Jan-2018

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Novel viruses have been increasingly discovered in feces of piglets, indicating the existence of viral enteric disease complexes and emphasizing the need for novel diagnostic tools.The MinION was used to detect cell culture grown porcine coronavirus and rotavirus. Next, a viral metagenomics approach was applied to investigate diarrheic feces of a 1 week old piglet. Preamplification of nucleic acids was not performed. In the first case, 6169 and 987 reads were assigned to PEDV and RVA, respecti