Assessment of Partial Sequencing of the 65-Kilodalton Heat Shock Protein Gene ( <i>hsp65</i> ) for Routine Identification of <i>Mycobacterium</i> Species Isolated from Clinical Sources

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We assessed the ability of an in-house database, consisting of 111 hsp65 sequences from putative and valid Mycobacterium species or described groups, to identify 689 mycobacterial clinical isolates from 35 species or groups. A preliminary assessment indicated that hsp65 sequencing confirmed the identification of 79.4% of the isolates from the 32 species examined, including all Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex...

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