The relationship of temperature to desiccation and starvation tolerance of the Mycobacterium avium complex

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 311-314

  Archuleta, Rebecca ^a   Mullens, Patricia ^a   Primm, Todd P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Desiccation; Mycobacterium avium; Mycolic acids; Starvation; Stress survival

Indexed keywords

MYCOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CELL VIABILITY; DESICCATION; HALF LIFE TIME; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DESICCATION; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOLIC ACIDS; TEMPERATURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036039829     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-002-0455-x     Document Type: Article

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