Metagenomic next-generation sequencing in diagnosing perinephric abscess infection caused by Trichomonas vaginalis

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the grants from the National Key Research and Development Project of China (Grant No. 2022YFC2406804), the Chongqing Youth and Middle-aged Medical Top Talent Project (Grant No. 202129), the Chongqing Bureau of Science and Technology and Chongqing Municipal Health Commission joint research project (Grant No. 2024GDRC004), Scientific Research Fund of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education (Grant No. 2024J0304), and Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Plan Project of Kunming Medical Joint Special Project (Grant No. 202401AY070001-295).

Author contributions

Sifen Lu (Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing), Guiming Xie (Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing), Mei Yuan (Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing—review & editing), Yongzhao Zhou (Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing—review & editing), Jing Wang (Resources, Validation, Writing—review & editing), Juan Jiang (Resources, Validation, Writing—review & editing), Wengeng Zhang (Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing—review & editing), Xiaoyan He (Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing), and Bojiang Chen (Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing—review & editing).

Conflict of interest

None declared. Besides, as an Editorial Board Member of Precision Clinical Medicine, the author Wengeng Zhang was blinded from reviewing and making decisions on this manuscript.

Ethics statement

Informed consent was obtained from the patient involved in the study.

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