Characterization of genetic differences between Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium strains of diverse virulence with a focus on the glycopeptidolipid biosynthesis cluster

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 249-264

  Krzywinska, Elzbieta ^a,b   Schorey, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Glycopeptidolipid biosynthesis; Mycobacterium avium; Subtractive hybridization; Virulence

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPEPTIDOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; SEROTYPE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GLYCOCONJUGATES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC); MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. AVIUM;

EID: 0037413894     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(02)00292-4     Document Type: Article

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