Papain-cetylpyridinium chloride and pepsin-cetylpyridinium chloride; two novel, highly sensitive, concentration, digestion and decontamination techniques for culturing mycobacteria from clinically suspected pulmonary tuberculosis cases

• Pottathil Shinu ,

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

  * E-mail: spottathail@kfu.edu.sa

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4245-0803

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• Varsha A. Singh,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, M.M.I.M.S.R., M.M. Deemed to be University, Ambala, India

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• Anroop Nair,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2850-8669

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• Katharigatta N. Venugopala,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0680-1549

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• Sabah H. Akrawi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

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