Genomic deletions suggest a phylogeny for the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 74-80

  Mostowy, Serge ^a   Cousins, Debby ^b   Brinkman, Jacqui ^a,d   Aranaz, Alicia ^c   Behr, Marcel A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Micrologix Biotech   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0036642396     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341068     Document Type: Article

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