Ag85B Antigen in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid: A Promising Biomarker for Tuberculosis Diagnosis

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Objective:</bold> To assess the diagnostic performance of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)‑secreted antigen Ag85B in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and to explore its utility as a supplemental etiological test. <bold>Methods: </bold>We prospectively enrolled 104 PTB patients who underwent fibre‑optic bronchoscopy at the Affiliated Hospital...

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• Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
• Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Phenotype
• ROC Curve
• Sensitivity and Specificity
• Sputum
• Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

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Literature Corpus work

972a33c0-d98a-5e0a-885a-4422e10aff7a

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-6617609/v1