
59: Hide & Seq: An ID Fellow Primer on Molecular Diagnostics
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Sequencing Mycobacteria
The main message is that mycobacteria are bacteria. And when you talk about sequencing, can you speak to how does the identification happen specifically? What is done with the sequencing data and then how does that match up to figuring out which organism is causing or is present? Yeah, that's the fun of sequencing. So you generate a lot of data and I'll talk first about Sanger sequencing because that's the most straightforward. You have a string of nucleotides that comes off.
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