Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Mycobacterium africanum isolates from West Africa

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1921-1926

  Frothingham, Richard ^a,b   Strickland, Percy L ^a,b   Bretzel, Gisela ^c   Ramaswamy, Srinivas ^d   Musser, James M ^d   Williams, Diana L ^e  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Klinikum der Ludwig Maximilians Universität München   (Germany)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RNA; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032963021     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1921-1926.1999     Document Type: Article

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