Classification and Drug Resistance Analysis of Pathogenic Bacteria in Patients with Bacterial Pneumonia in Emergency Intensive Care Unit

Table 3

Comparison of the species number of pathogenic microorganisms detected by the two methods (N(%)).

The number of pathogen species	mNGS (N = 180)	Traditional methods (N = 180)		P
0	14 (7.78)	75 (41.67)	55.54	<0.001
1	30 (16.67)	68 (37.78)	20.25	<0.001
2	91 (50.56)	33 (18.33)	41.38	<0.001
3	45 (25.00)	4 (2.22)	39.71	<0.001
Total number of positive	166 (92.22)	105 (58.33)	55.54	<0.001