Development of a suicide gene as a novel approach to killing Mycobacterium tuberculosis

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1993-1998

  Rom, William N ^a   Yie, Ting An ^a   Tchou Wong, Kam Meng ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; KANAMYCIN; LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SUICIDE GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031434229     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.156.6.9611079     Document Type: Article

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