Thai hospital ready to sequence hepatitis virus DNA following WHO alert


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BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Ramathibodi Hospital said on Thursday (April 28) it would be ready to sequence the DNA of the hepatitis virus if there is an outbreak of acute, severe hepatitis among Thai children following an alert issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The hospital’s Centre for Medical Genomics announced on its Facebook wall on Thursday that it would be ready to use NGS-Clinical Metagenomics technology to check the virus if Thai children are hit by acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin.

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