Active and prospective latent tuberculosis are associated with different metabolomic profiles: clinical potential for the identification of rapid and non-invasive biomarkers
Arturo Albors-Vaquer, Arshad Rizvi, Manólis Matzapetákis, Pedro Lamosa, Ana Varela Coelho, Anant B. Patel, Shekhar C. Mande, Sumanlatha Gaddam, Antonio Pineda‐Lucena, Sharmistha Banerjee, Leonor Puchades‐Carrasco
Abstract
-value < 0.0001). Overall, the strategy described in this work could provide a sensitive, specific, and minimally invasive method that could eventually be translated into a clinical tool for TB control.
Topics & Concepts
MedicineAsymptomaticTuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosisInternal medicinePopulationDiseaseConfidence intervalImmunologyPathologyEnvironmental healthTuberculosis Research and EpidemiologyMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry StudiesMycobacterium research and diagnosis