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Authors
Gupta, Rakesh Kumar
Chauhan, Keerti
Singhal, Ritu
Anthwal, Divya
Myneedu, Vithal Prasad
Khayyam, Khalid Umar
Choudhary, Sangeeta
Gupta, Ashawant
Gupta, Nalini Kant
Singh, Manjula
Tyagi, Jaya Sivaswami
Bhalla, Manpreet
Haldar, Sagarika https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8276-4458
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (5/8/5/7/Adhoc/2020/ECD-I)
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Article History
Received: 27 January 2025
Accepted: 1 October 2025
First Online: 12 January 2026
Declarations
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: The ethical approval for the study has been obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee of National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi (NITRD; NITRD/EC/2020/A85).
: Informed written consent was obtained from all individual participants (consent from a parent or guardian was obtained in case of a minor) included in the study.
: Written consent was obtained from all individual participants (consent from parent or guardian was obtained in case of a minor) included in the study for use of their data for scientific purposes.
: AG and NKG manufactured the 'TB Detect microscopy', 'TB Concentration & Transport', ‘TB DNA Extraction’ and Quick TB DNA Extraction’ kits. AG and NKG were not involved in conducting the study and analysing the results. DA, RKG, VPM, AG, NKG, SH, and JST are joint inventors in an Indian Provisional Patent application named ‘Apparatus and method for processing a sample for rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis and safe transport of bacteria’ (Patent application number- 201811042155). KC, RS, KUK, MB and SC have nothing to disclose.
