Plasmids - Potential tool for the investigation of gene transfer in Mycobacterium tuberculosis [5]

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 479-480

  Dam, T ^a   Das, Paramita ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 33645462433     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46258-0     Document Type: Letter

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