Table 3.

Aptamers developed for diagnosis and therapeutic applications in tuberculosis.

S. No.	Aptamer	Type	Organism	Target	Reference
For Diagnosis
1.	CE24 CE15	DNA	M.tb H37Rv	CE protein	Tang et al., 2014
2.	CSIR 2.11	DNA	M.tb	CE protein	Rotherham et al., 2012
3.	MPT64-A1	DNA	M.tb	MPT64	Zhu et al., 2012
4.	G43 G78	RNA	M.tb	EsxG protein	Ngubane et al., 2014
5.	MA1	DNA	M.tb	Whole-bacterium	Aimaiti et al., 2015
6.	Aptamer 1	DNA	M.tb	Whole-bacterium	Chen et al., 2007
7.	Au-IDE/CFP10- ESAT6	DNA	M.tb	Whole-bacterium	He et al., 2016
For therapeutic
8.	NK2	DNA	M.tb H37Rv	Whole-bacterium	Chen et al., 2007
9.	ZXL1	DNA	M.tb H37Rv	ManLAM	Pan et al., 2014
10.	M. tb -Apt1 M. tb -Apt6	DNA	M.tb	Acetohydroxyacid synthase	Baig et al., 2015
11.	BM2	DNA	BCG	ManLAM	Sun et al., 2016
12.	T9	DNA	M.tb Beijing strains	ManLAM	Tang et al., 2016
13.	CD44-TA-SMP	--	M.tb	CD44 receptor	Leonard et al., 2017