Stimulation of transposition of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis insertion sequence IS6110 by exposure to a microaerobic environment

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 982-993

  Ghanekar, Kiran ^a   McBride, Alan ^a   Dellagostin, Odir ^b   Thorne, Stephen ^a   Mooney, Rachel ^a   McFadden, Johnjoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUTTLE VECTOR; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032880410     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01539.x     Document Type: Article

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