Positive selection of allelic exchange mutants in mycobacterium bovis BCG

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 161-166

  Pelicic, Vladimir ^a   Reyrat, Jean Marc ^a,b   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allelic exchange; Mycobacteria; sacB

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 0030296669     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00354-0     Document Type: Article

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