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Tuberculosis status as the second leading cause of significant morbidity and mortality from an infectious disease worldwide, after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The objective of this study was to determine the molecular epidemiology and genetic characteristics of M. tuberculosis directly from sputum specimens. TaqMan Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Genotyping Assays, alongside with patients demographic data have been used for the study tuberculosis population in this work.

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Dr. Sabah Saad Abdulsahib Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology and Genetic engineering from University of Baghdad, Iraq. Lecturer with the Department of Biology, University College of Madenat Alelem,Iraq.

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