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Table 1 Characteristics of the included studies

From: Diagnostic performance of metagenomic next-generation sequencing for the detection of pathogens in cerebrospinal fluid in pediatric patients with central nervous system infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study name (author, year)

Research Type

Country/Continent

Samples

Study design

Multi/single-center

Sequencing platform

Patients were severely ill or immunocompromised

Sample pattern

Pathogen type

TP

FP

FN

TN

(Leon, 2018) [24]

Cohort

Spain/Europe

20

Retrospective

Single

Illumina

No

Frozen

isolated

10

0

10

0

(Saha, 2019) [28]

Case–control

Bangladesh/Asia

91

Retrospective

Single

Illumina

No

Fresh

mixed

35

0

11

45

(Zhang, 2019) [4]

Case–control

China/Asia

135

Retrospective

Single

BGISEQ

No

Fresh

isolated

32

6

11

86

(Haston, 2020) [23]

Cohort

USA/America

20

Prospective

Single

Illumina

No

Fresh

mixed

3

3

0

14

(Leon, 2020) [25]

Cohort

Spain/Europe

20

Retrospective

Single

Illumina

No

Fresh

isolated

8

0

12

0

(Ge, 2021) [22]

Cohort

China/Asia

101

Prospective

Single

Illumina

No

Fresh

mixed

5

15

0

81

(Guo, 2021) [29]

Case–control

China/Asia

17

Retrospective

Single

BGISEQ

No

Fresh

isolated

11

0

4

2

(Ramchandar, 2021) [21]

Cohort

USA/America

70

Prospective

Multi

Illumina

No

Frozen

mixed

20

4

5

41

(Chen, 2022) [30]

Cohort

China/Asia

127

Prospective

Single

Illumina

No

Frozen

isolated

32

23

27

45

(Qu, 2022) [26]

Cohort

China/Asia

15

Retrospective

Single

BGISEQ

Yes

Frozen

mixed

10

1

1

3