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However, conventional culture-based techniques show a typically low detection rate for various pathogenetic bacteria and fungi. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS), an emerging powerful platform offering higher sensitivity and higher throughput for evaluating many samples at once, remains to be studied in acquired cholesteatoma. In this study, 16 consecutive patients from January 2020 to January 2021 at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU) were reviewed. We detected a total of 31 microbial species in patients, mNGS provided a higher detection rate compared to culture (100% vs. 31.25%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.000034). As the severity of the patient\u2019s pathological condition worsens, the more complex types of microbes were identified. The most commonly detected microbial genus was <jats:italic>Aspergillus<\/jats:italic> (9\/16, 56.25%), especially in patients suffering from severe bone erosion. 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