Analysis of genetic polymorphisms affecting the four phospholipase C (plc) genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 967-978

  Viana Niero, C ^a   de Haas, P E ^b   van Soolingen, D ^b   Leão, Sylvia C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CANETTII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CANETTII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 1942473147     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26778-0     Document Type: Article

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