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. 2013 Apr;51(4):1272-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.03237-12. Epub 2013 Jan 23.

A genomic day in the life of a clinical microbiology laboratory

S Wesley Long  1 , Dawn Williams, Chandni Valson, Concepcion C Cantu, Patricia Cernoch, James M Musser, Randall J Olsen
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A genomic day in the life of a clinical microbiology laboratory

S Wesley Long et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Apr.

Abstract

Next-generation sequencing technology is available to many clinical laboratories; however, it is not yet widely used in routine microbiology practice. To demonstrate the feasibility of using whole-genome sequencing in a routine clinical microbiology workflow, we sequenced the genome of every organism isolated in our laboratory for 1 day.

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