Fig 1.
Flow chart of literature retrieval.
In total, 507, 53, 0, 242, and 295 articles were found in Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library, CNKI, and Wanfang Data, respectively.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the included studies.
Fig 2.
Methodological quality graphs (risk of bias and applicability concerns) were presented as percentages across the included studies using a composite reference standard.
Fig 3.
Forest plot for the sensitivity and specificity of mNGS for the diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis using a composite reference standard.
Table 2.
Meta-regression analysis for different parameters.