Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis rifampin resistance in bio-safe stained sputum smears

• Surabhi Lavania,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India, School of Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University, Yamuna Express way, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Divya Anthwal,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Bio-design and Diagnostics, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Faridabad–Gurgaon Express way, Faridabad, India

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• Manpreet Bhalla,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Mehrauli, New Delhi, India

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• Nagendra Singh,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University, Yamuna Express way, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Sagarika Haldar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Visualization

  * E-mail: jayatyagi.aiims@gmail.com, jstyagi@aiims.edu(JST); sagarikahaldar@thsti.res.in(SH)

  Affiliation Center for Bio-design and Diagnostics, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Faridabad–Gurgaon Express way, Faridabad, India

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• Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization

  * E-mail: jayatyagi.aiims@gmail.com, jstyagi@aiims.edu(JST); sagarikahaldar@thsti.res.in(SH)

  Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India, Center for Bio-design and Diagnostics, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Faridabad–Gurgaon Express way, Faridabad, India

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