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Table 3 Detectable bacterial species and their relative proportion of reads in the samples

From: Next-generation sequencing for hypothesis-free genomic detection of invasive tropical infections in poly-microbially contaminated, formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples – a proof-of-principle assessment

Species

Mean percentage of reads in the sample (± 1 standard deviation)

Mean percentage of bacterial reads in the sample (± 1 standard deviation)

Nocardia brasiliensis

0.021% ± 0.020%

0.097% ± 0.072%

Nocardia cyriacigeorgica

0.009% ± 0.009%

0.044% ± 0.029%

Nocardia farcinica

0.020% ± 0.019%

0.087% ± 0.066%

Streptomyces spp.

0.458% ± 0.428%

2.283% ± 1.494%