Biosensing Technologies for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Detection: Status and New Developments

Table 1

The various mentioned non-biosensing techniques for bacteria detection.

Method and technique type	Samples analyzed	Detection limit	References
PCR	M. tuberculosis	with the true positivity of 95.5%	Thomson et al. [7]
Latex agglutination	M. tuberculosis	with the true positivity of 73.6%	Krambovitis et al. [10]
ELISA	M. tuberculosis	with the true positivity of 68%	Delacourt et al. [13]
The AMTDT	M. tuberculosis	with the sensitivity of 94.3%	Gamboa et al. [15]
Radiometric detection	M. tuberculosis	—	Middlebrook et al. [14]
Flow cytometry	M. tuberculosis	3.5×10^3 cells/mL	Qin et al. [18]
MB/Bact system	M. tuberculosis	—	Horvath et al. 2004
MB/Bact system	Mycobacteria	—	Cambau et al. [17]