Empyema caused by Eikenella halliae diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) after pulmonary surgery: A case report

• Main Authors: Jie Huang (Author), Liming Wang (Author), Yumei Xu (Author), Xinhua Hu (Author), Ronghuan Yu (Author), Shi Chen (Author), Baoqing Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundEmpyema is one of the complications of pulmonary surgery for lung cancer, the incidence of which is not very high, but in severe cases, it can even lead to death, and it is always difficult to diagnose the cause by conventional methods.Case presentationIn this study, we report a clinical c...