1. Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2. Provincial TB Reference Laboratory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
3. Department of Bioinformatics and Bioscience, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
4. Kohat University of Science and Technology and Provincial TB Reference Laboratory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kohat, Pakistan.
5. TB Control Programme, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
6. Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.