Site-directed mutagenesis and virulence assessment of the katG gene of Mycobacterium intracellulare

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 999-1008

  Marklund, Britt Inger ^a,b,c,d   Mahenthiralingam, Eshwar ^b,c   Stokes, Richard W ^b,c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PROBES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENZYME STABILITY; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ISONIAZID; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PEROXIDASES; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031844660     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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