Insertion- and deletion-associated genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis phospholipase C-encoding genes among 106 clinical isolates from Turkey

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 533-538

  Talarico, Sarah ^a   Durmaz, Riza ^b   Yang, Zhenhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE C;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLCA GENE; PLCB GENE; PLCC GENE; PLCD GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STANDARD; TUBERCULOSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; TURKEY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

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

EID: 13844256145     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.533-538.2005     Document Type: Article

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