TABLE 1.

Sequence similarities and variations within ITS1 and ITS2 regions

Species of samples	Avg sequence similarity with reference straina
	A. flavus		A. fumigatus		A. terreus
	ITS1	ITS2	ITS1	ITS2	ITS1	ITS2
A. flavus	0.995	0.999	0.794	0.839	0.815	0.851
A. fumigatus	0.796	0.856	0.990	0.988	0.847	0.903
A. terreus	0.811	0.852	0.849	0.872	0.993	0.997

^aAverage sequence similarities and variations within ITS1 and ITS2 regions of each of the 69 Aspergillus isolates were tabulated using GenBank accession numbers AB008416 (A. flavus), AF176662 (A. fumigatus), and AF138290 (A. terreus) as reference sequences.