software (Syngene). All amplicons were subjected to purifi- cation using the QIAquick POR purification kit (Qiagen) ac- cording to the manufacturer's protocol. Purified samples were again electrophoresed at 100 V for 45 min with 2% agarose gel for confirming the presence of the amplicons PCR- purified products were then sequenced using an AB13730xL DNA sequencer by BioLinkk Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India. 20. Sequence analysis mn Alignment of nucleotide sequences and translation to reverse complementary sequences were carried out using BioEdit 7.1.3.0 (Hall. 1999). Comparison of aligned nucle otide sequences was made with those available in NCBI's GenBank database using BLASTn with program selection optimized for highly similar sequences (megablast). The newly generated sequences of our isolate were deposited in GenBank (ACT, KC355808; CAL, KC5 13745: HIST 3. KC355807: TEF-1 a, KC5 13746) 2.7 Phylogenetic analyses