1. Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;
2. Department of Health, Tehran Regional Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;
3. Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;
4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran;
5. Thoracic Research Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran