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We reanalyzed 47 publicly available patient sequencing runs representing 43 unique patient-timepoint samples from 19 SRA-labeled patients, together with 23 no-template-control (NTC) runs spanning 21 sequencing batches. To distinguish reference-catalogue content from progressively stronger evidence of patient-associated signal, we applied batch-matched NTC correction together with nested abundance thresholds and a feature-specific global NTC envelope. CheckM2 evaluated 1,013 bins; 13 met completeness \u226550% and contamination &amp;lt;10%, and dereplication yielded 11 draft MAG representatives. Ten representatives showed positive patient-to-control abundance excess, but only four showed recurrent support above both threefold matched-control abundance and the global NTC envelope. Functional annotations were therefore interpreted as reference-genome homologs rather than evidence of expression, phenotype, viability or bloodstream origin. Matched-control correction retained 19 read-level ARG types, but only seven subjects contributed complete longitudinal ARG-profile contrasts, limiting reliable temporal inference. The resulting run-resolved, nested evidence framework identified a subset of microbial DNA and ARG signals that remained detectable under increasingly stringent control criteria while distinguishing them from catalogue-level or background-sensitive signals. 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