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Successful Detection of Unrecognized Rickettsia typhi in Pregnancy Using Cell‐Free Next‐Generation Sequencing
1 Jan 2020
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. Infection in pregnant women can lead to adverse outcomes when diagnosis and treatment is delayed. We describe how next-generation sequencing (NGS) using the Karius® test was used to rapidly diagnose murine typhus in two pregnant women admitted to a large tertiary care center in Houston, Texas, when all initial testing was nondiagnostic.
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