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ArticleInfection and drug resistance2019

Use of Ultra-Deep Sequencing in a Patient with Tuberculous Coxitis Shows Its Limitations in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnostics: A Case Report.

Chi Zhang, Tao Hu, Leshan Xiu, Yamei Li, Junping Peng

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Article in Infection and drug resistance, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors.

Chi Zhang *NHC Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Tao Hu *Department of Neurosurgery, Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Taiyuan, People's Republic of China.
Leshan XiuNHC Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Yamei LiNHC Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Junping PengNHC Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-7959-5286

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has been widely applied in clinical microbiology for infectious disease diagnostics. Some successful applications in central nervous system infections and respiratory tract infections have proved it to be a promising tool for pathogen detection. Here, mNGS was used to confirm the infectious etiology in a case of tuberculous coxitis, which is a common type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB). A 77-year-old Asian male presented with hip pain and fever was diagnosed with smear- and culture-negative tuberculous coxitis based on the evidence of imaging and interferon-γ release assay. At the same time as the anti-TB therapy started, the patient underwent joint clearance surgery. Whole blood and synovial fluid sampled from surgery were kept for bacteriological confirmation using mNGS with high sequencing depth. However, only two paired-end reads from synovial fluid samples were identified as

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extrapulmonary tuberculosismetagenomicsmolecular diagnostic techniquesMycobacterium tuberculosis

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