Nitric oxide and Mycobacterium leprae pathogenicity

IUBMB Life

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 95-99

  Visca, Paolo ^a,b   Fabozzi, Giulia ^b   Milani, Mario ^c   Bolognesi, Martino ^d   Ascenzi, Paolo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium leprae; Nitric oxide; Pathogenicity; Reductive genome evolution; Truncated hemoglobin.

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TENSION; PATHOGENICITY; PH; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 18744410941     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15216540214542     Document Type: Review

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