An exit strategy for the tubercle bacillus?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 954-

  Hingley Wilson, S ^a   Lalvani, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BCG VACCINE; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6;

BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INTERACTION; CYTOLYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETTER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; WHOLE CELL;

GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 56349106943     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1821-c1     Document Type: Letter

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