Utility of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Infective Endocarditis: A Systematic Review

• मुख्य लेखकों: Sara F. Haddad (लेखक), Daniel C. DeSimone (लेखक), Supavit Chesdachai (लेखक), Danielle J. Gerberi (लेखक), Larry M. Baddour (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: MDPI AG, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Blood cultures have been the gold standard for identifying pathogens in infective endocarditis (IE). Blood culture-negative endocarditis (BCNE), however, occurs in 40% or more of IE cases with the bulk of them due to recent antibiotic exposure prior to obtaining blood cultures. Increasingly, molecul...