Development and evaluation of novel bio-safe filter paper-based kits for sputum microscopy and transport to directly detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis and associated drug resistance

• Divya Anthwal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Divya Anthwal, Surabhi Lavania

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Sector12, Chandigarh, India

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

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• Surabhi Lavania ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Divya Anthwal, Surabhi Lavania

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

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• Rakesh Kumar Gupta,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Current address: Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Sector12, Chandigarh, India

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

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• Ajoy Verma,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Vithal Prasad Myneedu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Prem Prakash Sharma,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5116-3702

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• Hitesh Verma,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation TB Hospital, Ambala, India

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• Viveksheel Malhotra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation TB Hospital, Ambala, India

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• Ashawant Gupta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Advanced Microdevices Pvt Ltd, Industrial Area, Ambala Cantt, India

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• Nalini Kant Gupta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Advanced Microdevices Pvt Ltd, Industrial Area, Ambala Cantt, India

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• Rohit Sarin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: jstyagi@aiims.edu (JST); sagarika.haldar@gmail.com (SH); drsarin@yahoo.com (RS)

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

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• Sagarika Haldar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jstyagi@aiims.edu (JST); sagarika.haldar@gmail.com (SH); drsarin@yahoo.com (RS)

  Current address: Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Sector12, Chandigarh, India

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

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• Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jstyagi@aiims.edu (JST); sagarika.haldar@gmail.com (SH); drsarin@yahoo.com (RS)

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6052-1137

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