Exploration of Lipid Metabolism Alterations in Children with Active Tuberculosis Using UHPLC-MS/MS.

ABSTRACT: Metabolic profiling using nonsputum samples has demonstrated excellent performance in diagnosing infectious diseases. But little is known about the lipid metabolism alternation in children with tuberculosis (TB). Therefore, the study was performed to explore lipid metabolic changes caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and identify specific lipids as diagnostic biomarkers in children with TB using UHPLC-MS/MS. Plasma samples obtained from 70 active TB children, 21 non-TB infectious disease children, and 21 healthy controls were analyzed by a partial least-squares discriminant analysis model in the training set, and 12 metabolites were identified that can separate children with TB from non-TB controls. In the independent testing cohort with 49 subjects, three of the markers,

SUBMITTER: Sun B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936505 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature