2017
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx121
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Hepatitis E Virus–Associated Meningoencephalitis in a Lung Transplant Recipient Diagnosed by Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing

Abstract: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection uncommonly causes chronic hepatitis and neurologic disease. We describe a case of genotype 3a HEV meningoencephalitis diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing, illustrating the power of an unbiased molecular approach to microbial testing and the first reported case of HEV infection presumably acquired through lung transplantation.

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“…24,[46][47][48][49][50][51][52] Total RNA is extracted from a patient's CSF, and complementary DNA (cDNA) is generated by reverse transcription with random hexamer primers. The use of mNGS has gained momentum over the past several years, with several notable case reports and case series showcasing mNGS's ability to capture a broad range of infections with a single assay.…”
Section: Research Csf Metagenomic Sequencingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…24,[46][47][48][49][50][51][52] Total RNA is extracted from a patient's CSF, and complementary DNA (cDNA) is generated by reverse transcription with random hexamer primers. The use of mNGS has gained momentum over the past several years, with several notable case reports and case series showcasing mNGS's ability to capture a broad range of infections with a single assay.…”
Section: Research Csf Metagenomic Sequencingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of mNGS has gained momentum over the past several years, with several notable case reports and case series showcasing mNGS's ability to capture a broad range of infections with a single assay. 24,[46][47][48][49][50][51][52] Total RNA is extracted from a patient's CSF, and complementary DNA (cDNA) is generated by reverse transcription with random hexamer primers. The cDNA is then converted into a library of random fragments, which is then sequenced on a massively parallel scale.…”
Section: Research Csf Metagenomic Sequencingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Obstacles to widespread adoption of mNGS include concerns about high costs, long turnaround time, and need for additional data about test performance characteristics. Thus, mNGS is often reserved for use as a late-stage option in diagnostically challenging cases [11][12][13][14][15][16]. Ongoing clinical validation of mNGS testing for a number of syndromes, results are based on did not include special access privileges to the data beyond the license.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Metagenomic shotgun sequencing is a method of sequencing all the nucleic acid in a specimen unbiasedly and then matching the sequences to those in databases to identify organisms and their genetic traits (e.g., antibiotic resistance genes and mutations). This approach has the potential to identify a variety of infectious agents, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists, directly from various clinical samples, with applications being described for central nervous system specimens (12)(13)(14)(15)(16), respiratory tract specimens (17,18), blood (19)(20)(21)(22), urine (23,24), bile (25), stool (26), synovial fluid (27), and prosthesis sonicate fluid (28)(29)(30).…”
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