Polymorphic nucleotide within the promoter of nitrate reductase (NarGHJI) is specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3252-3259

  Stermann, Marion ^a   Bohrssen, Antje ^a   Diephaus, Catharina ^a   Maass, Silvia ^a   Bange, Franz Christoph ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CYTOSINE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; START CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TECHNOLOGY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037492815     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.3252-3259.2003     Document Type: Article

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