Community-wide transmission of a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that causes reduced lung pathology in mice

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-27

  Cantrell, Sally A ^a   Pascopella, Lisa ^b   Flood, Jennifer ^b   Crane, Charles M ^c   Kendall, Lon V ^d   Riley, Lee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Public Health Division   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID; REACTIVE NITROGEN INTERMEDIATE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; LUNG GRANULOMA; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PKS 1 GENE; PKS 15 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 38349035693     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47252-0     Document Type: Article

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