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In our study, CSF mNGS reported negative result, mono-infection, and mixed infection in 8.8, 36.2, and 55% of the patients, respectively. <jats:italic>Epstein\u2013Barr virus<\/jats:italic> (EBV), positive in 52.5% of samples, was the most commonly reported pathogen, followed by <jats:italic>cytomegalovirus<\/jats:italic> (CMV), <jats:italic>John Cunningham virus<\/jats:italic> (JCV), <jats:italic>torque teno virus<\/jats:italic> (TTV), <jats:italic>cryptococcus neoformans<\/jats:italic> (CN), <jats:italic>toxoplasma Gondii<\/jats:italic> (TE), and <jats:italic>mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/jats:italic> (MTB). 76.2% of the EBV identification and 54.2% of the CMV identification were not considered clinically important, and relative less sequence reads were reported in the clinical unimportant identifications. The clinical importance of the presence of TTV in CSF was not clear. Detection of JCV, CN, or TE was 100% suggestive of specific CNS infection, however, 60% of the MTB reports were considered contamination. Moreover, of the 44 (55%) mixed infections reported by mNGS, only 4 (5%) were considered clinical important, and mNGS failed to identify one mixed infection. Additionally, except for MTB, CSF mNGS tended to have high sensitivity to identify the above-mentioned pathogens (almost with 100% sensitivity). Even all the diagnostic strategies were evaluated, the cause of neurological symptoms remained undetermined in 6 (7.5%) patients. Overall, our results suggest that mNGS is a very sensitive tool for detecting common opportunistic CNS pathogen in HIV-infected patients, although its performance in CNS tuberculosis is unsatisfactory. 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