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Study participants included 30 newly diagnosed ATB patients, 30 of the households of ATB patients who were free of clinical manifestations, had normal chest radiography but had positive results on the whole-blood QuantiFERON tuberculosis (TB) Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) test (LTB patients), and 30 HC who were free of clinical symptoms and showed normal chest X-rays and negative QFT-GIT tests. All participants gave blood samples for quantitation of the plasma expression levels of miR using the reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Plasma levels of miR-150-5p were significantly downregulated in ATB samples than in other samples. However, miR-155-5p and miR-378-5p were significantly overexpressed in patients\u2019 samples compared to HC\u2019s samples and in ATB samples compared to LTB samples. On the contrary, plasma miR-4523-5p showed significant upregulation in LTB samples compared to ATB and HC samples, indicating insignificant in-between differences. 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