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Comment
. 2008 Aug;48(2):679-83.
doi: 10.1002/hep.22452.

Metagenomics and the case of the deadly hamster

Andrew L Mason  1 , Karen Doucette, Gane Ka-Shu Wong
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Metagenomics and the case of the deadly hamster

Andrew L Mason et al. Hepatology. 2008 Aug.
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Figure 1
High‐throughput pyrosequencing method used by Palacios et al. to identify the novel arenavirus. Abbreviations: cDNA, complementary DNA; emPCR, emulsion polymerase chain reaction; PCR, polymerase chain reaction. Reprinted with permission from the New England Journal of Medicine. Copyright 2008, Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. See reference 34 for review of donor screening.
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  • A new arenavirus in a cluster of fatal transplant-associated diseases.
    Palacios G, Druce J, Du L, Tran T, Birch C, Briese T, Conlan S, Quan PL, Hui J, Marshall J, Simons JF, Egholm M, Paddock CD, Shieh WJ, Goldsmith CS, Zaki SR, Catton M, Lipkin WI. Palacios G, et al. N Engl J Med. 2008 Mar 6;358(10):991-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa073785. Epub 2008 Feb 6. N Engl J Med. 2008. PMID: 18256387

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