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ReviewEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2026

Clinical utility of metagenomic next-generation sequencing in diagnosing spinal infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Abdulrahim Saleh Alrasheed, Abdulrahman Mohammed Zawawi, Lama Mastour Alsulami, Fatimah Ahmed Alghirash, Sultan Othman Alsalmi, Ibrahim A Alhalal

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Review in European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Abdulrahim Saleh AlrasheedDepartment of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa , Saudi Arabia. 221414880@student.kfu.edu.sa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-0046-4638
Abdulrahman Mohammed ZawawiCollege of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Lama Mastour AlsulamiCollege of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Fatimah Ahmed AlghirashNeurology Department, King Fahad Hospital Hufūf, Al Hufūf, Saudi Arabia.
Sultan Othman AlsalmiDepartment of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim A AlhalalDepartment of Neurosurgery, Qatif Health Network, Qatif, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Meta-analysisMetagenomic next-generation sequencingMycobacterium tuberculosisSpinal infection

Identifiers

PMID41680314

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Registered trials

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