How can we use metagenomics for the diagnosis and management of patients?
Clinical Virology Symposium 2019 – WorkshopPart of a workshop presented at the Clinical Virology Symposium on May 6th, 2019 by Dr. Julianne Brown, Clinical Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London.
Dr. Brown discusses the challenges and benefits of using NGS-based metagenomics in the diagnosis and characterization of viral encephalitis cases and it’s a comparison to the use of qPCR as a diagnostics tool.
In this presentation you will learn:
- What is NGS-based metagenomics (mNGS) is and how it can be applied to pathogen detection
- What the mNGS workflow looks like when deployed in your laboratory
- Why deploying mNGS into your laboratory makes sense
- How mNGS compares with and improves upon qPCR as a detection platform
- How mNGS has been used to identify unexpected and novel pathogens related to viral encephalitis
Workshop Video (25:35 minutes):
Workshop Slide Deck (21 slides):
For research use only. Not for use in diagnostics or diagnostic procedures.
