The white morphotype of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare is common in infected humans and virulent in infection models

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1480-1484

  Mukherjee, Sandeep ^a   Petrofsky, Mary ^b   Yaraei, Kambiz ^a   Bermudez, Luiz E ^b   Cangelosi, Gerard A ^a  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COLOR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIVER; MICE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035576911     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324523     Document Type: Article

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