Challenges, innovations and considerations for the use of tongue swabs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex detection

• Anura David ,

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

  * E-mail: anura.david@witsdih.ac.za

  Affiliation Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub, Health Sciences Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1590-198X

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• Keneilwe Peloakgosi-Shikwambani,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub, Health Sciences Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Zanele Nsingwane,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub, Health Sciences Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Violet Molepo,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub, Health Sciences Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Wendy Stevens,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub, Health Sciences Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Priority Programmes, National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Lesley Scott

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub, Health Sciences Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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