Is mycobacterium tuberculosis 15, 000 years old?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1348-1349

  Kapur, Vivek ^a,b   Whittam, Thomas S ^a,b   Musser, James M ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; RECA PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0028152950     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/170.5.1348     Document Type: Article

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