Can pathogens be identified in mixed infections? What to do with overlapping sequences?
Polymicrobial infection
- Yes,
for a fee, there is an online tool available from Pathogenomix called RipSeq® which can identify up to three
bacterial species from a sequence depending on the sequence quality.
- With
the two sequencing primers, SeqGN16 and SeqGP16, up to six bacterial
species can theoretically be identified from one sample.
- RipSeq® is only suitable for mixed bacterial sequences and cannot be used for yeasts and fungi.
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