Table 1 Summary of patients and virus detection with next-generation sequencing.

From: Identification of Viruses in Cases of Pediatric Acute Encephalitis and Encephalopathy Using Next-Generation Sequencing

Patient no.

Age/Sex

Fever/Convulsions

Abnormality in brain imaging

Day specimens were obtained*

CSF cell count (/μl)

Virus detection (reads)/total reads

CSF

Serum

DNA sequencing

RNA sequencing

DNA sequencing

RNA sequencing

1

3 m/M

yes/no

no

0

379

ND

Coxsackievirus A9 (2,783)/2,808,998

NA

NA

2

4 m/F

no/no

yes

1

65

none/8,083,731

none/4,042,588

TTV (13)/10,869,222

none/12,825,812

3

6 m/F

no/yes

yes

2

2

ND

none†/9,631,224

none/14,029,721

none/13,057,234

4

1 y/F

yes/yes

yes

0

2

ND

none†/6,126,780

none/7,511,583

none/6,503,784

5

1 y/F

yes/yes

no

1

42

ND

none†/9,409,404

none/8,761,917

none/9,382,070

6

1 y/F

yes/yes

no

2

2

NA

NA

none/5,534,632

none/9,901,028

7

2 y/F

yes/yes

no

0

175

none/7,986,561

none/3,729,914

NA

NA

8

2 y/M

yes/yes

yes

1

1

ND

none†/10,469,992

none/8,551,602

none/16,207,392

9

3 y/M

yes/no

no

0

151

ND

Mumps virus (1,598)/6,342,942

ND

none/9,858894

10

3 y/M

yes/yes

no

1

3

ND

none†/9,903,654

none/10,173,039

none/7,157,566

11

4 y/M

yes/yes

yes

1

2

NA

NA

none/6,160,773

none/8,588,056

12

7 y/M

yes/no

no

2

25

ND

Coxsackievirus A9 (316)/5,017,612

NA

NA

13

8 y/M

yes/yes

yes

0

2

ND

none†/10,693,530

none/5,161,481

none/8,437,476

14

10 y/F

yes/yes

no

2

1

ND

none†/21,903,050

none/6,165,412

Pepper mild mottle virus (298)/10,001,178

15

12 y/F

yes/yes

no

2

1

ND

none†/5,319,1116

none/2,790,344

none/9,769,956

16

13 y/M

yes/no

yes

2

1044

none/11,177,479

none/4,416,258

none/9,583,470

none/9,092,904

17

14 y/M

yes/yes

yes

1

162

none/4,037,654

none/2,229,247

none/26,686,548

none/6,830,980

18

15 y/M

yes/no

no

1

2

ND

none†/7,971,760

none/6,818,809

none/9,851,214

  1. Metagenome analysis for virus identification was performed using the MePIC pipeline. The number of reads mapping to viral sequences was analyzed with the CLC workbench.
  2. CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; ND, not done; NA, samples not available; TTV, Torque teno virus; *, days after onset of illness; †, RNA was extracted using carrier RNA.