Table 1. Characteristics of the bacterial 16S rDNA broad-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-positive cases.

Case ID	Sex	Age (yrs)	Duration of antibiotic therapy before specimen obtained	Clinical syndrome(s)a	16S rDNA PCR and sequencing results	Specimen	Outcome
XOR6	M	18	10 min	Neurologic	Neisseria meningitidis	CSF	Survived
XOR34	M	13	3 days	Neurologic	N. meningitidis	CSF	Survived
XCA73	F	19	1 dayb	Respiratory & neurologic	Streptococcus pneumoniae	CSF	Survived
XEB44	F	10	3 days	Respiratory	S. pneumoniae	Pleural fluid	Survived
XMN22	M	43	2 weeks	Respiratory	S. pneumoniae	Pleural fluid	Survived
XOR63	M	29	1 month	Respiratory	Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	Bone marrow aspirate	Died (no autopsy)
XOR56	M	11	none	Multisystem	Staphylococcus epidermidis	Blood culture material	Survived
XCT29	F	10	1 week	Cardiac	Bacillus sp., Halomonas sp., Enterococcus sp.	Blood culture material	Survived

^aThe primary clinical syndrome(s) during hospitalization.
^bA second cerebrospinal (CSF) sample obtained 5 days later also contained S. pneumoniae rDNA.