Audrey Xu, Andrea Miranda, Hung Fu Lin, Taseer Din, Karthik Balakrishnan, Mai Thy Truong, Iram Ahmad, Kara Meister
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Efficacy of microbial cell-free DNA testing for detecting pathogens in pediatric patients with head and neck infections-An initial study.
We investigate the utility of microbial cell-free DNA (mcfDNA) from the blood to predict surgical culture results. In this study, only 26.9% of patients had mcfDNA results that were considered predictive of the causative organism(s). There was a significant burden of contamination in the cohort, emphasizing that dedicated protocols must be followed when running gene-based diagnostics. Healthy patients showed detectable mcfDNA signals, though typically at lower molecules per milliliter for similar pathogens.