Saturday, 5 January 2019

Portable DNA sequencer helps identify severity of Lassa outbreak in Nigeria

An international team of researchers has found that it is possible to use portable DNA sequencers to learn more about a viral outbreak as the outbreak is occurring. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their analysis of Lassa DNA in afflicted patients during a recent outbreak in Nigeria, and what they found. Nahid Bhadelia with the Boston University School of Medicine and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, has written a Perspective piece on the work done by the team in the same journal issue.

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