Use of sequencing technologies to improve swine infectious disease management

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

This week, Shaoyuan Tan, PhD-candidate from the Murtaugh’s lab is sharing the technology behind MinION.

Key points

  • MinION sequencing can be used for antibiotic resistance prediction to guide prudent and effective antibiotic use
  • MinION sequencing can improve clinical diagnosis to strain-level detection
  • MinION sequencing is a potential solution for rapid emerging infectious disease investigations
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