Use of fluorescence induction and sucrose counterselection to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes expressed within host cells

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2923-2930

  Triccas, James A ^a   Berthet, François Xavier ^a,b   Pelicic, Vladimir ^a,c   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS   (Belgium)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Gene induction; Macrophage; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE EXPRESSION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032844939     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-10-2923     Document Type: Article

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