Increased intracellular survival of Mycobacterium smegmatis containing the Mycobacterium leprae thioredoxin-thioredoxin reductase gene

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2537-2541

  Wieles, Brigitte ^a,b   Ottenhoff, Tom H M ^a   Steenwijk, Thea M ^a   Franken, Kees L M C ^a   De Vries, René R P ^a   Langermans, Jan A M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030915644     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.7.2537-2541.1997     Document Type: Article

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