Utilizing RT-PCR for infectious disease diagnosis with emphasis on non-tuberculous mycobacteria in Bangladesh, 2019–2024
Md Abu Sayem, Md Akram Hossain, Md Abdus Salam, Ayesha Ahmed Khan, Sourav Nath, Mohammad Amir Hossain, Md Ibrahim Adham, Md Ahshanul Haque · 2026
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Md Abu Sayem and colleagues review five years of gene test results at a hospital in Chattogram, Bangladesh, to judge how the method serves infection care, in a 2026 study. Just under eight hundred samples with full records, drawn from blood, tissue, fluids, and swabs, were tested by a copying method that reads pathogen genes directly. Testing ran from mid 2019 to mid 2024.
About one in eight samples came back positive. Mycobacteria appeared in a small share, split between the tuberculosis germ and its lesser known cousins, which standard care often misses. Men and airway panel tests showed higher hit rates, while several sample types ran low. The authors praise the method's sharpness, urge smarter sample picking to lift hit rates and trim cost, and ask national TB planning to give the cousin germs their due.
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| CREATOR | Md Abu Sayem, Md Akram Hossain, Md Abdus Salam, Ayesha Ahmed Khan, Sourav Nath, Mohammad Amir Hossain, Md Ibrahim Adham, Md Ahshanul Haque |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31940 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |