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Severe childhood pneumonia (SCAP) causes death and disability in children, as it may trigger pleural effusion, respiratory failure, bacteremia and multiple organ failure. Traditional pathogen detection techniques including microscopy, culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) feature narrow detection coverage, lengthy detection cycles and low sensitivity. These defects frequently lead to undetermined infectious etiology, forcing clinicians to administer empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has emerged as an innovative, high-throughput, untargeted detection technology in recent years, which greatly promotes the etiological diagnosis of infectious diseases. Published meta-analyses show that the pathogen detection rate of mNGS using bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples collected from children can reach 85.83%, which is markedly higher than the 49.97% detection rate of conventional testing approaches. 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