Table 2 Comparison of human and microbial DNA recovery with and without initial centrifugation

From: Unified metagenomic method for rapid detection of microorganisms in clinical samples

Sample number

Sample type

Reported (spiked)

Centrifugation

Total number of read

Human Reads

Microbial reads

Number of reads of the target organisms

1

NT

P.aeruginosa

(Adenovirus

SARS-CoV-2)

Herpesvirus 7

(PIV3)

Yes

620,452

2332 (0.37%)

618,130 (99.6%)

609,514 (98%)

2,684

446

34

15

No

539,843

22,555 (0.042%)

517,288 (96%)

250,999 (46%)

47

3

2

0

2

Spiked sterile VTM

(P. multocida

S. aureus

C. albicans

H. influenzae

Adenovirus

M. pneumoniae

C. pneumoniae

PIV1

PIV3

PIV4

FluA

Rhinovirus A

Metapneumovirus

Coronavirus OC43

Coronavirus 229E

Coronavirus NL63

SarsCov2

RSV)

Yes

2,054,974

N/A

2,050,603 (99%)

505,388 (24.5%)

1,147,990 (56%)

1787 (0.1%)

1263 (0.06%)

9531

175

60

6

16

4

6

2

1

2

3

1

1

0

No

958,291

N/A

957,640 (99%)

813,470 (85%)

117,570 (12%)

6570 (0.68%)

952 (0.1%)

134

3

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

NT

Human CoV HKU1

Yes

222,732

17,859 (8%)

204,873 (92%)

191

No

301,165

36,644 (12%)

264,521 (88%)

4