Metagenomic sequencing may be valuable for diagnosing infectious disease
DENVER — Metagenomic next-generation sequencing may be a reliable diagnostic tool to analyze causes of highly contagious meningitis or encephalitis in a clinical setting, according to a speaker.“By sequencing all the DNA and RNA in clinical samples, in principle, we can diagnose any kind of infection,” Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, professor of laboratory medicine in the division of