1. Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, 197101 St. Petersburg
2. Public Central Laboratory, Beijing Pediatric Institute, Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100045, People's Republic of China
3. Department of Pathogenic Bacteria, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria
4. Laboratory of Microbiology of Tuberculosis, The Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, 193063 St. Petersburg, Russia
5. National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi
6. Pham Ngoc Thach Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam