Molecular analysis of a leprosy immunotherapeutic bacillus provides insights into Mycobacterium evolution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Ahmed, Niyaz ^a   Saini, Vikram ^b   Raghuvanshi, Saurabh ^b   Khurana, Jitendra P ^b   Tyagi, Akhilesh K ^b   Tyagi, Anil K ^b   Hasnain, Seyed E ^c,d  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^d JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INDICUS PRANII; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEPROSY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 41549139212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000968     Document Type: Article

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