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CASE REPORT

A Case of Secondary Pulmonary Syphilis – The Utility of mNGS in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid: A Case Report

Xue Yang1 Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of ChinaView further author information
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Weigang Wu2 Department of Infectious Disease, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of ChinaView further author information
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Yongjie Wang1 Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of ChinaView further author information
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Wen Wu1 Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of ChinaView further author information
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Xia Huang1 Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of ChinaView further author information
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Li Xu3 Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First People’s Hospital of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 5215-5219 | Published online: 05 Sep 2022

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