Microbial Contamination in Next Generation Sequencing: Implications for Sequence-Based Analysis of Clinical Samples

• Michael J. Strong,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Guorong Xu,

  Affiliation Department of Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Lisa Morici,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Sandra Splinter Bon-Durant,

  Affiliation University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Melody Baddoo,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Zhen Lin,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Claire Fewell,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Christopher M. Taylor,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Research Institute for Children, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Erik K. Flemington

  * E-mail: eflemin@tulane.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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