Identification of two subpopulations of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Tokyo172 substrain with different RD16 regions

Vaccine

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 4969-4974

  Honda, Ikuro ^a   Seki, Masaaki ^a   Ikeda, Noriko ^a   Yamamoto, Saburo ^b   Yano, Ikuya ^a   Koyama, Akira ^a   Toida, Ichiro ^a  

^a Kiyose   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

BCG Tokyo172; RD16 genotype; Subpopulations

Indexed keywords

AGAR MEDIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINE PRODUCTION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; C57BL MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIVER; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SPLEEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SPLEEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33747103875     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.03.055     Document Type: Article

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