Evolutionary bottlenecks in the agents of tuberculosis, leprosy, and paratuberculosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-99

  Frothingham, R ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033081917     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1997.0622     Document Type: Article

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