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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2026

Case Report: A rare presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis with extensive ground-glass opacities in an immunocompetent patient: lessons from metagenomic next-generation sequencing.

Juanjuan Mao, Qian Jin, Dan Ye, Yide Yang

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Juanjuan Mao *Department of Infectious Diseases, Taizhou Municipal Hospital (Taizhou University Affiliated Municipal Hospital), School of Medicine, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China.
Qian Jin *Department of Infectious Diseases, Taizhou Municipal Hospital (Taizhou University Affiliated Municipal Hospital), School of Medicine, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China.
Dan YeDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Taizhou Municipal Hospital (Taizhou University Affiliated Municipal Hospital), School of Medicine, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China.
Yide YangDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Taizhou Municipal Hospital (Taizhou University Affiliated Municipal Hospital), School of Medicine, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China.

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Abstract

Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is typically diagnosed through sputum smear microscopy and culture. However, diagnosis is challenging in patients with atypical radiological features and negative conventional tests. Ground-glass opacities (GGOs) are common but non-specific computed tomography (CT) findings and are rarely observed in immunocompetent PTB patients. We report the first case of an immunocompetent 53-year-old female presenting with extensive bilateral GGOs without classic clinical symptoms. Conventional microbiological cultures, acid-fast staining, and serological assays were all negative. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid identified

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diagnosisground-glass opacitymetagenomic next-generation sequencingtherapytuberculosis

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