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Emergence of new infections in the 21st century and identification of pathogens using next generation sequencing

About authors

1 Department of Physical Measurement Methods, A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

2 Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

3 Translational Biomedicine Laboratory,
N. F. Gamaleya Federal Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow

Correspondence should be addressed: Valentin Makarov
ul. Leninskie gory, d. 1., str. 40, Moscow, Russia, 119991; moc.liamg@enitnelavvorakam

About paper

Funding: this work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant no. 15–54–04004.

All authors' contribution to this work is equivalent: selection and analysis of literature, planning of the manuscript's structure, data interpretation, drafting of the manuscript, editing, checking of the references, literary editing.

Received: 2017-02-03 Accepted: 2017-02-08 Published online: 2017-03-11
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Fig. 1. Genetic mechanisms of emergence of new pathogens among viruses (A) and bacteria (B)
Fig. 2. Geographic distributions of emerging pathogens in the 21st century
Fig. 3. Identification of new viruses using VIDISCA and next generation sequencing
Risk factors contributing to the emergence of new diseases