Which trial do we need? Plasma metagenomic next-generation sequencing to diagnose infections in patients with haematological malignancies and febrile neutropenia: proposal for a randomized-controlled trial

Affiliations

• ¹ British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ² Delve Bio, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ³ Emory University Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA, USA; Emory University Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden.
• ⁷ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: babadyn@mskcc.org.