Starvation Survival Response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6702-6706

  Parish, Tanya ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HISTIDINE; PROLINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLONY FORMING UNIT; GROWTH INHIBITION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HISTIDINE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROLINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0242407462     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.22.6702-6706.2003     Document Type: Article

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