Fig. 3

Patients composition and samples types. a. In samples of this study, 33.9% were from blood which was the most, 33.0% from BALF, 11.0% from tissue and the others were from sputum (8.3%), pleural fluid (6.4%), CSF (3.7%), pus (1.8%), bone marrow (0.9%) and nasal swab (0.9%). b. Patients were subdivided into ID (92/109, 84.4%), NID (16/109, 14.7%) and unknown (1/109, 0.9%) groups according to their diagnosis by conventional technique. c. Infection sites of patients in ID group. Most were respiratory system infections (73/109, 67.0%) and followed by bloodstream infections (10/109, 9.17%), pleural effusion (6/109, 5.50%), central nervous system infections (6/109, 5.50%), cardiovascular system infection (2/109,1.83%), eye, ear, nose, throat, or mouth infection (2/109,1.83%), skin and soft tissue infection (1/109, 0.92%), multifocal infection (1/109, 0.92%), urinary system infection (1/109, 0.92%). Abbreviations: CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; BALF, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid