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KFSHRC Metagenomic Infectious-Disease Diagnostics and National Reference Centre
Applies untargeted second- and third-generation sequencing for rapid detection of bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites and resistance signatures in difficult infections.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- KFSHRC patients and hospitals across Saudi Arabia
- Project type
- Clinical pathogen-metagenomics program and national reference infrastructure
- Research domain
- Infectious-disease diagnostics, outbreak response and antimicrobial resistance
- Years
- 2024–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- Diagnostic protocol announced in August 2024; the center was accredited as a national reference center/provider for metagenomics services in November 2025.
- Status evidence date
- 2025-11-01
- Scale
- More than 100 patients reported in the initial program; around half of detected cases involved antimicrobial resistance; results targeted within 24 hours.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) Genomic Medicine Center of Excellence
- Partner organizations
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies
- Organism / population
- Patients with unexplained or treatment-refractory infections and their clinical specimens
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- clinical metagenomic sequencing
- long-read sequencing
- pathogen identification
- AMR profiling
Data access
Clinical/controlled; national service support rather than a public dataset
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Operational clinical pathogen-sequencing program with patient-scale results and subsequent national-reference accreditation.
Editorial note
The 2024 protocol and 2025 accreditation are phases of one continuing program/infrastructure record, not separate projects.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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