Fig. 2

mNGS of Treponema pallidum in the patient’s cerebrospinal fluid. A, B The result of mNGS showed 2288 reads corresponding to the Treponema pallidum, with a coverage of 11.6483%. In the microbiota composition, 2.77% of the reads corresponded to Treponema pallidum, and the rest are commonly regarded as contaminating bacterial DNA from the environment and agents