The effect of ultraviolet light radiation on Mycobacterium leprae

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-17

  Truman, Richard W ^a   Gillis, Thomas P ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALMITIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FOOT PAD; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; RADIATION DOSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LEPROSY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PALMITIC ACID; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0034028737     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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