Genetic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates with deletions in the plcA-plcB-plcC locus

Tuberculosis

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-29

  Vera Cabrera, Lucio ^a   Molina Torres, Carmen A ^a   Hernández Vera, Marco A ^a   Barrios García, Hugo B ^b,d   Blackwood, Kym ^c   Villareal Treviño, Licet ^d   Ocampo Candiani, Jorge ^a   Welsh, Oliverio ^a   Castro Garza, Jorge ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR JOSÉ ELEUTERIO GONZÁLEZ   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^c Public Health Agency of Canada   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Genomic deletions; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Phospholipases C

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLCA GENE; PLCB GENE; PLCC GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TYPE C PHOSPHOLIPASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33845666050     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2006.01.023     Document Type: Article

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