Selective whole-genome sequencing of Plasmodium parasites directly from blood samples by nanopore adaptive sampling.

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Malaria is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, and reached a global disease burden of 247 million cases in 2021. To study drug resistance mutations and parasite population dynamics, whole-genome sequencing of patient blood samples is commonly performed. However, the predominance of human DNA in these samples imposes the need for time-consuming laboratory procedures to enrich Plasmodium DNA. We used the Oxford Nanopore Technologies' adaptive sampling feature to circumvent this problem and enrich Plasmodium reads directly during the sequencing run. We demonstrate that adaptive nanopore sequencing efficiently enriches Plasmodium reads, which simplifies and shortens the timeline from blood collection to parasite sequencing. In addition, w

SUBMITTER: De Meulenaere K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10790762 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature