The Mycobacterium leprae genome: From sequence analysis to therapeutic implications;Le genome de Mycobacterium leprae: De l'analyse de la sequence aux enjeux therapeutiques

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 473-479

  Honore, N ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Genomic libraries; Mycobacterium leprae; Reductive evolution; Sequence

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COSMID; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COSMIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 17144468691     PISSN: 0025682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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