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Diagnosis of Neurological Infections in Pediatric Patients from Cell-Free DNA Specimens by Using Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing
18 Jan 2023
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Our study emphasized that cfDNA mNGS had overall superiority to conventional methods on causative pathogen detection in CNS-infected children, and it was even better than wcDNA mNGS. cfDNA mNGS detected a wide range of pathogens with a high total coincidence rate (67.5%) against clinical diagnosis. The best timing for cfDNA mNGS detection ranged from 1 to 6 days, rather than 0 days, after the start of empirical...
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