Cheng-Sheng Zhang

A nationwide study of pathogens in hospitalized patients with lower respiratory tract infections by metagenomic next-generation sequencing

ABSTRACT Lower respiratory tract infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality, yet timely etiologic diagnosis is difficult because of the breadth of possible pathogens and the limitations of conventional microbiological tests. We retrospectively analyzed 30,819 clinical specimens from 27,507 hospitalized...