Mycobacterium avium resists exposure to the acidic conditions of the stomach

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-49

  Bodmer, Thomas ^a,b   Miltner, Elizabeth ^a   Bermudez, Luiz E ^a  

^a Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acid tolerance; AIDS; Mycobacterium avium

Indexed keywords

ACID;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STOMACH PH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; GASTRIC ACID; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; STOMACH; WATER;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;

EID: 0033989836     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00567-4     Document Type: Article

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