Use of the hupB gene encoding a histone-like protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a target for detection and differentiation of M. tuberculosis and M. bovis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2724-2732

  Prabhakar, S ^a,d   Mishra, A ^a   Singhal, A ^a   Katoch, V M ^b   Thakral, S S ^c   Tyagi, J S ^a   Prasad, H K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL JALMA INSTITUTE FOR LEPROSY AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASES   (India)

^c Ctrl Military Veterinary Laboratory   (India)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HISTONE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUPB GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HISTONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 2942620506     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2724-2732.2004     Document Type: Article

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