Viral Genome Sequencing in the Heart of a Lassa Outbreak (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Viral Genome Sequencing in the Heart of a Lassa Outbreak (1 of 3)

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Setup of MinION sequencing reactions at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, February 2018. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 4 Jan. issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.E. Kafetzopoulou at National Infection Service in Porton Down, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Metagenomic sequencing at the epicenter of the Nigeria 2018 Lassa fever outbreak."

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[Credit: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany]

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