BCNE	Blood-culture-negative infective endocarditis
CI	Confidence interval
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
FN	False negative
FP	False positive
GLMM	Generalized linear mixed model
HSROC	Hierarchical summary receiver-operating-characteristic
IE	Infective endocarditis
I2	Proportion of total variability attributable to between-study heterogeneity
NGS	Next-generation sequencing
NPV	Negative predictive value
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
PI	Prediction interval
PPV	Positive predictive value
PRISMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
QUADAS-2	Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies 2
REML	Restricted maximum likelihood
rDNA	Ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid
rRNA	Ribosomal ribonucleic acid
TN	True negative
TP	True positive
τ	Estimated between-study standard deviation
τ2	Estimated between-study variance