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. 2024 Jul 7;4:135. doi: 10.1038/s43856-024-00554-3

Table 5.

Additional potential pathogens detected

Sample number Sample type Routine testing detections Sequencing results after 2 h
Microorganisms (Ct values) Number of microbial reads Percentage of bacterial reads
51 BAL Agar culture negative S. pneumoniae urine Ag positive S. pneumoniae 13 26.531
11 Sputum Commensals

R. mucilaginosa

S. mitis

S. pneumoniae

S. oralis

SARSCov2 (Ct 20)

P. histicola

29765

1014

835

549

413

395

87.446

2.979

2.453

1.613

N/A

1.16

20 BAL

Agar culture negative

S. pneumoniae urine Ag positive

PIV3

S. pneumoniae

Parainfluenza virus 3 (Ct 31)

985

30

91.628

N/A

34 BAL

P. aeruginosa

PCR not requested

P. aeruginosa

Rhinovirus A (Ct 24)

52007

56

67.401

N/A

36 Sputum Commensals

E. corrodens

N. mucosa

V. parvula

R. mucilaginosa

P. melaninogenica

P. jejuni

N. meningitidis

N. cinerea

E. coli

K. denitrificans

A. defectiva

Influenza virus A (Ct 24)

195

164

39

37

31

21

20

13

12

7

7

2

32.939

27.703

6.588

6.25

5.236

3.547

3.378

2.196

2.027

1.182

1.182

N/A

37 Sputum C. freundii

C. freundii

Human

gammaherpesvirus 4

Rhinovirus B (Ct25)

5660

44

15

70.119

N/A

N/A

49 BAL

P. aeruginosa

PCR not requested

P. aeruginosa

SARSCov2 (Ct 19/21)

12016

3935

66.67

N/A

50 NTS Negative Influenza virus C 40 N/A

H high growth, L light growth, S scanty growth.