Deletion of two-component regulatory systems increases the virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1134-1140

  Parish, Tanya ^a,c   Smith, Debbie A ^a   Kendall, Sharon ^a,b   Casali, Nicola ^a,d   Bancroft, Gregory J ^a   Stoker, Neil G ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVR GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KDPDE GENE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TCRXY GENE; TRCS GENE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, SCID; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0037371176     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.3.1134-1140.2003     Document Type: Article

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