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基于支气管肺泡灌洗液的靶向新一代测序技术在肺结核诊断及耐药检测中的应用研究

 

Authors Zhao CY, Song C, Huang XW , Huang AC, Zeng CM, Li WW, Tan QQ, Lin XS, Huang ZT, Jiang CY, Zhu QD

Received 29 September 2025

Accepted for publication 5 January 2026

Published 9 January 2026 Volume 2026:19 567798

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/IDR.S567798

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Dr Hemant Joshi

 uangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530021, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Pharmacy, The Fourth People’s Hospital of Nanning, Nanning, Guangxi, 530023, People’s Republic of China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence: Qing-Dong Zhu, Department of Tuberculosis, The Fourth People’s Hospital of Nanning, Nanning, Guangxi, 530023, People’s Republic of China, Email zhuqingdong2003@163.com Chang-Yue Jiang, Department of Pharmacy, The Fourth People’s Hospital of Nanning, Nanning, Guangxi, 530023, People’s Republic of China, Email 651642097@qq.com

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical value of targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) using bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and detecting resistance to first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs, and to compare its performance with traditional methods.
Patients and Methods: In this study, BALF samples were collected from 258 patients with suspected PTB and subjected to AFB staining, mycobacterial solid culture, TB-DNA PCR, Xpert MTB/RIF, and tNGS. Using comprehensive clinical diagnosis or phenotypic DST as the reference, we evaluated the sensitivity, specificity, and other metrics of each method and assessed tNGS performance in detecting resistance to rifampicin, isoniazid, streptomycin, and ethambutol.
Results: Overall, tNGS achieved a sensitivity of 91.10%, specificity of 89.70%, and an AUC of 0.904, all significantly higher than traditional methods. It uniquely identified 24 positive cases missed by other methods. In smear-negative patients, sensitivity remained high at 88.10%, with an AUC of 0.891. For drug-resistance detection, tNGS showed the best performance in judging isoniazid resistance (sensitivity 83.10%, specificity 90.30%), and also showed high negative predictive values for rifampicin, streptomycin, and ethambutol (all > 94%).
Conclusion: tNGS provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for PTB and reliable detection of drug-resistant mutations from BALF samples. It is particularly suitable for smear-negative cases and for resistance screening, making it a powerful complement to the existing TB diagnosis system with high clinical application potential.

Keywords: targeted next-generation sequencing, bronchoalveolar lavage, tuberculosis, drug resistance, diagnostic efficacy