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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (11): 1226-1230.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2018.11.015

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Progress in metabolomics research on tuberculosis

WEI Jin-tao,LI Hua(),QIU En-ming.   

  1. The First Clinical Medical College of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510000, China
  • Received:2018-08-06 Online:2018-11-10 Published:2018-12-04
  • Contact: Hua LI E-mail:lih@fimmu.com

Abstract:

World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed terminating tuberculosis epidemic globally by 2035.To achieve this goal, new breakthroughs are urgently needed through researches on the mechanism of drug resistance development in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the search for new tuberculosis diagnostic markers, and the development of new anti-tuberculosis drugs. Metabolomics is an emerging omics technique for studying endogenous metabolic changes in the body. Compared with the issues, such as genetic complexity and post-transcriptional modification, etc., which are faced by other omics researches, metabolomics may directly reflect the changes in the body’s endogenous metabolic information, obtain the metabolic markers of the organisms for disease prevention through multivariate statistical analysis and can provide guidance on the diagnosis, treatment, prognosis of disease. At present, metabolomics has been widely applied in the research of tuberculosis and achievements have been made in terms of the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. The recent progress of metabolomics in tuberculosis research is summarized in this paper.

Key words: Tuberculosis, Metabolomics, Etiology, Diagnosis and treatment, Prognosis