**2. Aim and objectives**

This chapter is an exploratory study of existing tuberculosis diagnostics aimed at highlighting the conventional and advanced methods of *Mycobacterium tuberculosis* evaluation. The objective is to identify suitable and efficient method(s) of tuberculosis detection by way of profiling their merits and demerits.

### **3. Methods**

This chapter is a descriptive research on the evolutionary trend of tuberculosis diagnosis. Available literature would be used to identify existing methods of *Mycobacterium tuberculosis* detection. A comparative analysis between the merits and

demerits of old conventional and advanced molecular/immunological methods would be carried out to ascertain what best serve the purpose of prompt and efficient detection of *Mycobacterium tuberculosis* infection.
