Application and development of metagenomics next-generation sequencing technology in diagnosis of bone infection / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Bone infection is a serious infectious disease in clinical practice due to its difficult treatment and poor prognosis. Therefore, early accurate diagnosis of bone infection is the key for successful treatment. The traditional detection methods is time consuming with lower positive rate. Therefore, it is urgent to find better detection techniques to identify the pathogenic microorganisms of bone infection. In recent years, metagenomic second-generation sequencing technology has been widely used in the diagnosis of clinical infectious diseases because of its advantages of accurate, rapid, efficient and comprehensive diagnosis of pathogenic microorganisms, and can be used as an effective tool for the diagnosis of bone infections. This paper mainly reviews the advantages, disadvantages and development direction of metagenomics next-generation sequencing technology in the diagnosis of bone infection.