A Mycobacterium tuberculosis operon encoding ESAT-6 and a novel low-molecular-mass culture filtrate protein (CFP-10)

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3195-3203

  Berthet, François Xavier ^a,c   Rasmussen, Peter Birk ^b   Rosenkrands, Ida ^b   Andersen, Peter ^b   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CFP 10; ESAT 6; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Operon; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031767535     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-11-3195     Document Type: Article

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