Effects of overexpression of the alkyl hydroperoxide reductase AhpC on the virulence and isoniazid resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1395-1401

  Heym, Beate ^a,b   Stavropoulos, Evangelos ^c   Honoré, Nadine ^a   Domenech, Pilar ^a   Saint Joanis, Brigitte ^a   Wilson, Theresa M ^d   Collins, Desmond M ^d   Joseph Colston, M ^c   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROPEROXIDE; ISONIAZID; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GUINEA PIG; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030910419     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.4.1395-1401.1997     Document Type: Article

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