Table 2.
Microbiological culture and mNGS results.
| Patient# | Microbial Culture | Sample type | Detected Pathogens By mNGS |
CNVs Detected |
Follow-up/Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N/A | Blood | Human Herpesvirus 5 | Yes | Deceased |
| 2 | Negative | Blood |
Human Herpesvirus 5 Human Herpesvirus 7 |
Yes | Improved and transferred to another hospital |
| Pleural effusion | Human Herpesvirus 5 | No | |||
| CSF | None | No | |||
| 3 | Negative | Blood | None | Yes | Transferred to EICU |
| 4 | Negative | Lung biopsy | None | Yes | Discharged |
| 5 | Negative | BALF | Candida tropicalis | Yes | Improved and transferred for further treatment |
| Lung biopsy | Human Herpesvirus 7 | No | |||
| 6 | Acinetobacter baumannii | Blood | None | No | Transferred to a specialized hospital |
| CSF | None | No | |||
| Brain biopsy |
Escherichia coli Stenotrophomonas maltophilia |
Yes | |||
| 7 | N/A | Blood | None | Yes | Discharged |
| 8 | N/A | Blood |
Legionella pneumophila Bacteroides fragilis Enterococcus faecium Human polyoma virus |
Yes | Discharged |