Metagenomic next generation sequencing of plasma RNA for diagnosis of unexplained, acute febrile illness in Uganda

• Abraham J. Kandathil ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham J. Kandathil, Paul W. Blair, Jennifer Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9038-134X

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• Paul W. Blair ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham J. Kandathil, Paul W. Blair, Jennifer Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jennifer Lu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham J. Kandathil, Paul W. Blair, Jennifer Lu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Raghavendran Anantharam,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kenneth Kobba,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Matthew L. Robinson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sultanah Alharthi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Edgar C. Ndawula,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• J. Stephen Dumler,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Francis Kakooza,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Mohammed Lamorde,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• David L. Thomas,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Steven L. Salzberg,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Computer Science and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yukari C. Manabe

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ymanabe@jhmi.edu

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8619-5598

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