Construction of D29 shuttle phasmids and luciferase reporter phages for detection of mycobacteria

Gene

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 129-136

  Pearson, Robert E ^a   Jurgensen, Stewart ^a   Sarkis, Gary J ^b   Hatfull, Graham F ^b   Jacobs Jr , William R ^c  

^a BD Technologies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmids; Luciferase; Mycobacteriophages; Non essential regions; Phage immunity; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; LUCIFERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; GENE CASSETTE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHAGEMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; RECOMBINANT GENE; REPORTER GENE; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES; LYSOGENY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SUPERINFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030443947     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00530-6     Document Type: Article

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