A metagenomic approach for the potential establishment of a surveillance strategy against emerging viral diseases, through the use of massively parallel sequencing technology from blood donor samples from different national centres is being implemented.
Description
Title: Characterization of blood virome by next generation sequencing (NGS) in the Spanish population: a surveillance strategy against potential emerging viruses.
Research Group: Virus Experimental Evolution
A metagenomic approach for the potential establishment of a surveillance strategy against emerging viral diseases, through the use of massively parallel sequencing technology from blood donor samples from different national centres is being implemented.
Non-UV principal researchers
José Manuel Cuevas
Start date
2018
January
End date
2020
December
Funding agencies:
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades