diff --git a/workflows/short-read-mngs/test/test_short_read_mngs.py b/workflows/short-read-mngs/test/test_short_read_mngs.py
index c81b02f1..ca5e9c13 100644
--- a/workflows/short-read-mngs/test/test_short_read_mngs.py
+++ b/workflows/short-read-mngs/test/test_short_read_mngs.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import json
 import atexit
-import re
-import os.path
 from Bio import SeqIO