Clinical Evaluation of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for the detection of pathogens in BALF in severe community acquired pneumonia

• Main Authors: Yupeng Wei (Author), Tongqiang Zhang (Author), Yuting Ma (Author), Jisi Yan (Author), Jianghua Zhan (Author), Jun Zheng (Author), Yongsheng Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Rapid and accurate identification of pathogens is very important for the treatment of Severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) in children. Metagenomic Next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has been applied in the detection of pathogenic bacteria in recent years, while the overall...