Targeted sequencing data (PRJCA051439)
From August 2023 to May 2025, 181 patients with suspected CAP were enrolled from the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Nanbu County People's Hospital in Sichuan Province, China. For each patient, sputum and BALF samples collected on the same day were subjected to tNGS and conventional microbiological testing (CMT). The diagnostic performance of tNGS on sputum and BALF for pathogen identification was compared.