Mycobacterium avium in the Postgenomic Era

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-229

  Turenne, Christine Y ^a   Wallace Jr , Richard ^b   Behr, Marcel A ^a,c  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAEMURIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC);

EID: 34248192875     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00036-06     Document Type: Review

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