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Hunting for Helminths: short- and long-read shotgun metagenomics for parasite detection in faecal samples
Katie O’Brien, Ajay Elamaran, Mehmet Dayı…·Vicky L. Hunt
This study validates shotgun metagenomics for detecting soil-transmitted helminths in faecal samples, finding mitochondrial sequence mapping as the most accurate method, with short-read sequencing outperforming long-read.
DOI 10.64898/2026.03.09.710549