• 1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, Changsha, Hunan 410016, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, P. R. China;
ZHANG Youzhi, Email: zhyouzhi1977@163.com
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Objective To explore application value of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology in diagnosis of pathogenic microorganism infection through two cases report and literature review.Methods The NGS technology was used to make clear diagnosis of two cases of suspected pulmonary tuberculosis and pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of these two patients was collected for gene detection of pathogens using the NGS technology. A systematic literature review was performed for similar published cases in WanFang and CNKI database, using the keywords (next-generation sequencing) OR (NGS) AND (microorganism OR infection) from January 2000 to January 2018, using the PubMed database to retrieve the English literature before January 2018 with the " NGS, infectious diseases, China” as keywords.Results One case of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and one case of non-tuberculous Mycobacteria were detected respectively. A total of 221 Chinese literatures and 3 English literatures were retrieved, excluding dissertations, conferences and newspapers. Finally, 10 articles were published in the infectious diseases and respiratory diseases subjects. The role of NGS technology in the diagnosis and study of related pathogens is proposed.Conclusion The NGS method is expected to achieve precision medical purposes, such as early diagnosis of infectious diseases, transmission control, accurate treatment, good prognosis and so on.

Citation: HUANG Changyu, HU Ruicheng, ZHANG Youzhi, LI Shengqing. The next-generation sequencing technology for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases: two cases report and literature review. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2019, 18(1): 21-25. doi: 10.7507/1671-6205.201803032 Copy

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