The 500-base-pair fragment of the putative gene RvD1-Rv2031c is also present in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

In Vivo

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-36

  Metaxa Mariatou, Vasiliki ^a   Vakalis, Nikolaos ^a   Gazouli, Maria ^b   Nasioulas, Georgios ^a  

^a HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

M. bovis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; RvD1 Rv2031c gene

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 1342304962     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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