“…Laboratory test results are an important and definitive basis for TB diagnosis ( Hu, 2008 ; Salina and Morozova, 2008 ; Melinte, 2009 ; Amaral and van Soolingen, 2015 ; Purohit and Mustafa, 2015 ; Purohit et al, 2015 ; Sharma et al, 2015 ; Shiferaw et al, 2015 ; Afsar and Afsar, 2016 ; Dunn et al, 2016 ; Procop, 2016 ; Shi et al, 2016 ; Bhirud et al, 2017 ). At present, the main clinical diagnostic methods for PTB are smear, culture, biophage, and molecular and immunological methods ( Brent et al, 2011 ; Barnard et al, 2012 ; Li et al, 2015 ; Wang et al, 2015 ; Huo and Peng, 2016 ; Penata et al, 2016 ; Shi et al, 2016 ; Gelalcha et al, 2017 ; Maharjan et al, 2017 ; Yadav et al, 2017 ). However, in terms of their sensitivity, all single tests have defects of varying degrees in clinical practice.…”