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Probe-based metagenomic pathogen detection
Ferreira, Rita; Coelho, Luís; Santos, João Dourado; Sobral, Daniel; Isidro, Joana; Mixão, Verónica; Pinto, Miguel; Nunes, Alexandra; Borrego, Maria JoséPublisher Copyright: Copyright © 2025 Ferreira, Coelho, Santos, Sobral, Isidro, Mixão, Pinto, Nunes, Borrego, Lopo, Oleastro, Sousa, Palminha, Veríssimo, Gargaté, Guiomar, Cordeiro, Macedo, Bajanca-Lavado, Paixão, Duarte, Vieira, Borges and Gomes.; Probe-based pathogen enrichment, followed by NGS, is a promising tool for complex diagnosis, overcoming traditional challenges of shotgun metagenomics, namely small ...
Ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak, Portugal, 29 April to 23 May 2022
Duque, Mariana Perez; Ribeiro, Sofia; Martins, João Vieira; Casaca, Pedro; Leite, Pedro Pinto; Tavares, Margarida; Mansinho, Kamal; Duque, Luís MiguelPublisher Copyright: © 2022 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.; Up to 27 May 2022, Portugal has detected 96 confirmed cases of monkeypox. We describe 27 confirmed cases (median age: 33 years (range: 22–51); all males), with an earliest symptom onset date of 29 April. Almost all cases (n = 25) live in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley health region. Most cases were neither ...