Clinical impact of next-generation sequencing on laboratory diagnosis of suspected culture-negative meningitis and encephalitis

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
• ² Neuromedicine Center, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
• ³ Department of Radiology, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
• ⁴ Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: skplau@hku.hk.
• ⁵ PhD Program in Translational Medicine and Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan; The iEGG and Animal Biotechnology Research Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan; Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: pcywoo@hku.hk.