Mycobacterial persistence: Adaptation to a changing environment

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 597-605

  Bentrup, Kerstin Höner zu ^a,b   Russell, David G ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FATTY ACID; GENE PRODUCT; GLYOXYLIC ACID; PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; DISEASE DURATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LATENT PERIOD; LIPID DIET; MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0035584286     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)02238-7     Document Type: Review

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