Diagnostic challenges and Gene-Xpert utility in detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis among suspected cases of Pulmonary tuberculosis

• Shaila Kabir,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Medicine Based Disciplines, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sandakan, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2603-8608

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• M. Tanveer Hossain Parash ,

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

  * E-mail: parash_cmc@ums.edu.my

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Science and Therapeutics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sandakan, Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Borneo Medical and Health Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sandakan, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7468-5845

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• Nor Amalina Emran,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sandakan, Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tuberculosis Research Unit, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sandakan, Malaysia

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• A. B. M. Tofazzal Hossain,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Surgical Based Disciplines, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sandakan, Malaysia

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• Sadia Choudhury Shimmi

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Science and Therapeutics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sandakan, Malaysia

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