Characterization of a haemolysin from Mycobacterium tuberculosis with homology to a virulence factor of Serpulina hyodysenteriae

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1205-1211

  Wren, Brendan W ^a   Stabler, Richard A ^a   Das, Satya S ^a   Butcher, Philip D ^b   Mangan, Joseph A ^b   Clarke, Jonathan D ^b   Casali, Nicola ^c   Parish, Tanya ^c   Stoker, Neil G ^c  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BCG; Contact dependent haemolysin; Mycobacterium leprae; recN; tlyA

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HEMOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA; CLONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE; SUS SCROFA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031750545     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-5-1205     Document Type: Article

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