Deletion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pknH gene confers a higher bacillary load during the chronic phase of infection in BALB/c mice

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 5751-5760

  Papavinasasundaram, K G ^a,b   Chan, Bosco ^b   Chung, Ji Hae ^a   Colston, M Joseph ^c   Davis, Elaine O ^b   Av Gay, Yossef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; ARABINOSYL TRANSFERASE; ETHAMBUTOL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; PKNH PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLARY LOAD; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMB GENE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION; INI GENE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PKNH GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ETHAMBUTOL; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRITES; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIRULENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 23644451812     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.16.5751-5760.2005     Document Type: Article

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