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Table 1 Summary of five cases with the application of mNGS in diagnosis of cat-scratch disease

From: Application of metagenomic next-generation sequencing in the diagnosis of Bartonella neuroretinitis: a case report and literature review

Author (Ref)

Age (yr)/Sex

Contact with cats

Clinical manifestation

Sample type

B. henselae-specific sequences (reads)a

Genome coverageb

Other microbiology

Yang et al. [10]

48/Female

Yes

Intermittent fever, systemic rash, fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, shock and unconsciousness

Lymph node tissue

7182

13.94%

NAc

Wang et al. [11]

65/Male

NA

Fever, subcutaneous abcess

Tissue swab

305

0.9%

Culture negative

Patel et al. [12]

65/Male

Yes

Fever, shortness of breath and chest pain

Plasma

NA

NA

Culture negative, serology positive

Kassab et al. [13]

49/Male

No

Fever, tensionlike headache, nausea, and non-bloody emesis

Cerebrospinal fluid

22

0.13%

Culture negative, PCR negative, serology positive

Li et al. [14]

13/Male

Yes

Intermittent fever, headache, poor appetite and weight loss

Peripheral blood

4

NA

Culture negative

  1. aThe specific and only mapped sequence number to the pathogen genome
  2. bThe proportion of the sequence number covered the whole pathogen genome
  3. cNot available