A 12.7 kb fragment of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome is not present in Mycobacterium bovis

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 893-897

  Zumárraga, Martin ^a   Bigi, Fabiana ^a   Alito, Alicia ^a   Romano, María I ^a   Cataldi, Angel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Genome; Mycobacterium bovis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Sequence analysis; Species differentiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0042351119     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-4-893     Document Type: Article

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