Context-sensitive transposition of IS6110 in mycobacteria

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3169-3176

  Wall, Sue ^a   Ghanekar, Kiran ^a   McFadden, Johnjoe ^a   Dale, Jeremy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; IS6110; Mycobacteria; Transposition; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSITION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032722735     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-11-3169     Document Type: Article

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