Mutation in mce operons attenuates Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 325-334

  Gioffré, Andrea ^a   Infante, Eduardo ^b   Aguilar, Diana ^b   De La Paz Santangelo, María ^a   Klepp, Laura ^a   Amadio, Ariel ^a   Meikle, Virginia ^a   Etchechoury, Ignacio ^a   Romano, María Isabel ^a   Cataldi, Angel ^a   Hernández, Rogelio Pando ^b   Bigi, Fabiana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; INOCULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 20944450757     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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