Table 3.

Pathogens unexpectedly reported by the mNGS.

	No. of positive CSF sample	No. of sequence reads
Cytomegalovirus	5	1, 4, 5, 7, and 26
Herpes simplex virus-1	5	1, 1, 4, 8, and 155
Human polyomavirus-5	2	3 and 3
Candida albicans	2	4 and 10
Mycoplasma species	2	3 and 5
Others: human betaherpesvirus 6A, human papillomavirus-5, Staphylococcus aureus, Rickettsia felis, Aspergillus fumigatus, Torque teno virus 28, human papillomavirus-19, Epstein-Barr virus, and molluscum contagiosum virus	1 for each pathogen	889, 10, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2 and 2, respectively

CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.