Application of High-Throughput Sequencing Technology in Identifying the Pathogens in Endophthalmitis.

"Conflicts of Interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest."

"The authors obtained the following scientific research project grants: “Application of New Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology in Differential Diagnosis of Endophthalmitis” from the Shanxi Provincial Health Commission (grant number, 2019076); “Study on Culture of Healthy Eye Microflora” (grant number, C201901) from the Shanxi Eye Hospital; “Study on Vitreous Colonies of Patients with Traumatic Endophthalmitis” (grant number W202103) from the Shanxi Eye Hospital; and “Study of Eye Surface Microbial Community in Patients with Thyroid Associated Ophthalmopathy” (grant number, 2019SKLID313), which is an open project of the State Key Laboratory. The authors also received support from the State Key Laboratory Open Project (“Healthy Eye Microbial Colony Research”; grant number, 2019SKLID312). The authors would like to thank Editage (http://www.editage.cn/) for English language editing."