Evidence for occurrence of the ESAT-6 protein in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and virulent Mycobacterium bovis and for its absence in Mycobacterium bovis BCG

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-22

  Harboe, Morten ^a   Oettinger, Thomas ^b   Wiker, Harald Gotten ^a   Rosenkrands, Ida ^b   Andersen, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Mycobacteria Department   (Denmark)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BCG VACCINE; ONCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BCG VACCINATION; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; MEMORY CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0030025636     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.1.16-22.1996     Document Type: Article

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