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Comprehensive Pathogen Profiling in Adult Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Using Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing of Sputum Samples

2025-12-15 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) remains a major global health burden, yet conventional diagnostics frequently fail to identify the causative pathogens. This study aimed to comprehensively characterize the respiratory microbial landscape in adult SARI and to evaluate the clinical utility of an optimized long-read metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) workflow. A total of 101 respiratory specimens from hospitalized adults in northern Thailand (November 2023 to April 2024) were an...

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