CLIME Research Group

CLIME Research Group has been a member of Linktree for 9 months and joined in October 2025. The social media accounts linked to from CLIME Research Group are: • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • Bluesky • WhatsApp Channel Besides social media accounts, climegroup has populated their site with: • CAD LUS4TB featured on Swiss National Television - News: Single Page Layout - CAD LUS4TB • A fast and accurate TB Test that doesn't need phlegm : NPR • Why Is Tuberculosis Still Killing Millions When We Have a Cure? • CLIME Website | Stellenbosch University • Finding the missing millions with tuberculosis - The Lancet Global Health • Near point-of-care nucleic acid amplification tests (NPOC- NAATs) as a new diagnostic class for diagnosis of TB using sputum and tongue swabs • Low-complexity automated nucleic acid amplification tests (LC-aNAATs) on tongue swabs • Development of a Rapid Automated Point-of-Care Test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Detection from Tongue Swabs and Sputum Specimens on the DASH® Rapid PCR System | medRxiv • Preferences for tongue swab versus sputum collection for TB testing: a multi-country survey - PubMed • Sputum and Tongue Swab Molecular Testing for the In-Home Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Unselected Household Contacts: A Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis • Preferences for tuberculosis diagnostic test features among people tested for tuberculosis: a multicountry discrete choice experiment - The Lancet Primary Care • Using sputum and tongue swab specimens for in-home point-of-care targeted universal testing for tuberculosis of household contacts: an acceptability and feasibility analysis | BMJ Global Health • Oral Washes and Tongue Swabs for Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra–Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis in People With and Without the Ability to Make Sputum | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic • Diagnostic Accuracy of Tongue Swabs for Tuberculosis Using a Common Protocol for Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra Testing: A Multi-Country Assessment • CLIME | Stellenbosch University • Bioequivalence of CRP using LumiraDX for TB diagnosis • Waste to Worth: Xpert MTB/XDR on contaminated liquid cultures s • Oral Washes and Tongue Swabs for Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra • AveloMask, a novel breath aerosol collection kit for airborne Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a proof-of-principle assessment | Journal of Clinical Microbiology • Detection of Aerosolized TB via an Electrostatic Sampler • TB Think Tank Webinar: Aerosol sampling in TB • Puscast #86: TB Diagnosis Without Sputum: Oral Washes & Tongue Swabs Featured • Blood RNA biomarkers and C-reactive protein for triage of adult patients with tuberculosis lymphadenitis and pericarditis in South Africa: a single-centre, prospective, observational, diagnostic accuracy study - The Lancet Microbe • List of all CLIME’s publications • CLIME Newsletter • TB impact story on BBC World Service