Effect of specimen processing, growth supplement, and different metabolic population on Mycobacterium tuberculosis laboratory diagnosis

• Shashikant Srivastava ,

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

  * E-mail: shashikantpgi@gmail.com, Shashi.kant@uthct.edu

  Current address: Department of Pulmonary Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8786-8851

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• Moti Chapagain,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Tawanda Gumbo

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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