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Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Research

Protocol for Metagenomic Virus Detection in Clinical Specimens1

Claudia KohlComments to Author , Annika Brinkmann, Piotr W. Dabrowski, Aleksandar Radonić, Andreas Nitsche, and Andreas Kurth
Author affiliations: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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Table 5

Output of next-generation sequencing for development of a protocol for metagenomic virus detection in infectious disease settings*

Name No. original reads No. remaining reads† Minimum, maximum (mean) read length), nt† Sendai virus Vaccinia virus Influenza virus, A/ PR8/1934 Reovirus, T3/Bat/G/342/08 No. nonviral reads
Chicken RNA library 1,636,344 1,076,582 100, 464 (240) 46 7 0 0 999,947
Chicken DNA library 1,332,908 808,516 100, 463 (248) 0 1,343 0 0 998,657
Chicken random library 1,347,059 576,467 100, 460 (199) 3 510 0 0 999,486
Chicken TUViD-VM protocol 2,021,403 969,236 100, 455 (220) 60,408 224 4,934 0 934,434
Marmoset RNA library 2,859,201 1,555,567 100, 464 (223) 6 NA NA NA 999,994
Marmoset DNA library 2,856,326 1,711,121 100, 464 (246) 0 NA NA NA 1,000,000
Marmoset random library 598,451 355,443 100, 464 (200) 11 NA NA NA 999,989
Marmoset TUViD-VM protocol 1,007,051 640,088 100, 460 (223) 446,813 NA NA NA 553,186

*Standardization value for all procedures was 1,000,000. TUViD-VM, tissue-based universal virus detection for viral metagenomics; NA, not applicable.
†After length filtering of 100–1,000 nt.

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1Preliminary results of this study were presented at the Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Meeting, January 29, 2014, Washington DC, USA.

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