Presence of fungal infection in brains of patients with Parkinsons disease (PD)

Isolation of fungi in infected neural tissues in patients with Parkinson's disease. Here we used next generation sequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) regions, by PCR amplicons (NGS ITS amplicon analysis).

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Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 2 Publications

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001005025	Isolation of fungi in infected neural tissues in patients with Parkinson's disease. Here we used next generation sequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) regions, by PCR amplicons (NGS ITS amplicon analysis).	Illumina MiSeq	22

Publications	Citations
Parkinson's Disease: A Comprehensive Analysis of Fungi and Bacteria in Brain Tissue. Pisa D, Alonso R, Carrasco L. Int J Biol Sci 16: 2020 1135-1152	26
Much ado about nothing? Off-target amplification can lead to false-positive bacterial brain microbiome detection in healthy and Parkinson's disease individuals. Bedarf JR, Beraza N, Khazneh H, Özkurt E, Baker D, Borger V, Wüllner U, Hildebrand F. Microbiome 9: 2021 75	20