Xiaodong Zeng, Yuemei Liang, Han Wang, Jimei Chen, Yang Xu, Qiuxiang Ou, Jia Yin, Jian Zhuang, Weiping Xiong, Lili Tang, Xueming Li, Guang Tong, Liming Lei, Xuhua Jian
BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening uncommon infectious disease, and we aimed to explore the clinical utility of venous or arterial blood-based metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) approaches to diagnose left-sided infective endocarditis (LSIE). METHODS: We prospectively studied 79 LSIE patients who received valvular surgery in our hospital. Results of blood culture, valve culture, venous blood-based mNGS, arterial blood-based mNGS, venous blood-based mNGS plus blood culture, and arterial blood-based mNGS plus blood culture were evaluated and compared...
December 8, 2023: Clinica Chimica Acta; International Journal of Clinical Chemistry