Genetic advances for studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenicity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 413-420

  Pelicic, Vladimir ^a,b   Reyrat, Jean Marc ^a,c   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VACCINE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSPOSON; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031979597     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00807.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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