Ling-Xia Shi

Clinical utility of targeted next-generation sequencing for rapid detection, species differentiation, drug resistance profiling, and prognostic evaluation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a multi-center retrospective cohort study

Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health threat, which is complicated by challenges in distinguishing TB from nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections and drug resistance. Conventional diagnostics (including culture, Xpert MTB/RIF, AFB smear, T-SPOT.TB, etc.) are limited by inadequate differentiation of...