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Advances in DNA sequencing have greatly enhanced the molecular epidemiology studies. In order to assess evolutionary and phylogenetic relation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates several gene targets were evaluated. In this study, appropriate fragments of 5 highly variable genes (rpsL, mprA, lipR, katG, and fgd1 genes) were sequenced. The sequence data were analyzed with neighbor-joining method using mega and Geneious software. The phylogenetic trees analyzes revealed that the discriminatory power of lipR is much stronger than that observed in the other genes. lipR could distinguish between more clinical isolates. Therefore, lipR is a promising target for sequence analyzes of M. tuberculosis.
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The authors wish to thank the Deputy of Research Affairs of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences for providing financial support for this research and also Ethics Committee of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences for review and approval (Grant No. 87909).
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Saedi, S., Youssefi, M., Safdari, H. et al. Sequence Analysis of lip R: A Good Method for Molecular Epidemiology of Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Curr Microbiol 71, 443–448 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-015-0856-0
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