Infectious disease
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Rapid insights when every moment matters
Pathogens are constantly evolving, creating infectious disease threats that can emerge and spread rapidly. Understanding what is circulating, how it is changing, and how outbreaks are spreading requires comprehensive genomic insights — often faster than traditional approaches can provide.
Oxford Nanopore sequencing gives you access to rich genomic data in real time, enabling rapid pathogen identification, antimicrobial resistance profiling, reference-quality genome assembly, and variant annotation. From portable to high-throughput sequencing, generate the insights you need, when and where you need them.
Why nanopore sequencing?
Comprehensive pathogen insights
Gain deeper insights into genomic variation and antimicrobial resistance with any-length reads and built-in, gold-standard methylation detection.
Fast, actionable results
Access and analyse data in real time for rapid pathogen characterisation and outbreak investigation.
Flexible and scalable
Independent flow cells let you flex your sequencing throughput to meet demand, with no sample batching required.
Streamlined, end-to-end workflows
Go from sample to answer with best-practice workflows designed to simplify and consolidate your research.
Accessible and affordable
From portable to high-throughput, our compact plug-and-play devices allow you to sequence in the lab or at sample source.
Customer spotlight
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Metagenomic pathogen detection in hours
‘we are able to produce a report after 30 minutes of sequencing … that is not actually possible with Illumina … the [Illumina workflow] turnaround time is between one week to two weeks.’
Find out how the NHS Respiratory Metagenomics Network has developed a single metagenomic sequencing pipeline that can detect the microbes behind respiratory infections in a matter of hours.
End-to-end workflows
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Nanopore-only microbial isolate sequencing solution (NO-MISS): flexible, rapid bacterial and fungal isolate whole-genome sequencing
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Streamlined identification of bacteria, archaea, and fungi with Oxford Nanopore microbial amplicon barcoding
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Rapid and complete plasmid characterisation with Oxford Nanopore sequencing
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Rapid viral sequencing for genomic surveillance of mpox using metagenomic or targeted approaches
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Rapid identification of respiratory pathogens with Oxford Nanopore metagenomics
Featured resources
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Delivering the future of genomic pathogen surveillance
Discover how rapid, affordable nanopore sequencing is overcoming the limitations of legacy technologies to transform genomic surveillance of infectious disease outbreaks.
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How to choose the right microbial community sequencing workflow
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Whole-genome sequencing of foodborne pathogens
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A guide to microbial sequencing with Oxford Nanopore
Featured product for infectious disease
AmPORE-TB
AmPORE-TB is a research workflow that delivers rapid characterisation of mutations associated with antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, species identification, and lineage identification in a single assay, directly from sputum samples.
Combining fast library preparation with on-demand nanopore sequencing and hands-off, comprehensive analysis onboard the GridION AmPORE-TB device, the AmPORE-TB workflow can take as little as six hours for same-day results.
The GridION AmPORE-TB device, installed with the AmPORE-TB data analysis software, will be distributed by bioMérieux (Q-GRD-MK1-ATB).
Recommended device for infectious disease sequencing
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GridION
Bring flexible, on-demand sequencing to your infectious disease research. With up to five independent MinION Flow Cells, GridION lets you scale sequencing as samples arrive, while powerful onboard compute streamlines data analysis for rapid pathogen characterisation, genomic surveillance, and outbreak investigation.
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