Figure 2.
The relative level of miRNA-155 from six kinds of miRNAs be worthy for Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis in clinical sputum
The relative level of six kinds of miRNAs from were detected from five groups’ sputum via qRT-PCR respectively, 68 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), 32 patients with pneumonia, 28 patients with lung cancer, 12 patients with unexplained pulmonary nodules and 50 healthy donors. The miR-155 showed a better detection performance to distinguish PTB patients from non-PTB donors. Although there were statistical differences between PTB and non-PTB using other five kinds of miRNAs, them were less value than miRNA-155 for PTB diagnosis from sputum