Improved Diagnostics in Bacterial Neonatal Meningitis Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Platform.

Alieke van der HoevenMartha T van der BeekVincent BekkerErin MeijersMarco J R IvensEls WesselsAloysius C M KroesStefan A Boers
Published in: Infectious diseases and therapy (2023)
Addition of 16S rRNA sequencing to conventional culturing greatly improved the identification of the aetiology of bacterial meningitis compared to culturing of CSF samples alone.