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Gubio S Campos1, Silvia I Sardi1, Melissa B Falcao2
1Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
Journal of Virological Methods
|May 24, 2020
Abstract
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Herein, we describe the detection of a SARS-CoV-2 genome through metatranscriptome next-generation sequencing directly from the nasopharyngeal swab of a suspected case of local transmission of Covid-19, in Brazil. Depletion of human ribosomal RNA and use of an optimized in-house developed bioinformatics strategy contributed to successful detection of the virus.

