diagnosed and treated correctly. Even though there are several diagnostic tests available in
the market, rapid, easy, inexpensive detection, and drug susceptibility testing (DST) of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is still of critical importance specially in low and middle-income
countries with high incidence of the disease. In this work, we have developed a microscopy-
based methodology using the reporter mycobacteriophage mCherrybomb ϕ for detection of …