Assembly and characterization of pandemic influenza A H1N1 genome in nasopharyngeal swabs using high-throughput pyrosequencing.

Barbara Bartolini1, Giovanni Chillemi2, Isabella Abbate1, Alessandro Bruselles1, Gabriella Rozera1, Tiziana Castrignano2, Daniele Paoletti2, Ernesto Picardi4, Alessandro Desideri2,3, Graziano Pesole4,5, Maria R. Capobianchi1 1National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) L. Spallanzani, Rome, Italy; 2CASPUR Rome, Italy; 3Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Rome “Tor Vergata“, Rome, Italy; 4Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare “E. Quagliariello”, University of Bari, Italy; 5Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy