Laboratory maintenance of mycobacterium smegmatis

Current Protocols in Microbiology

Volumn , Issue SUPPL. 14, 2009, Pages

  Singh, Anil Kumar ^a,b   Reyrat, Jean Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

7H9; LB Miller; Medium; Middlebrook; Sauton; Strain storage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSAFETY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA CONTENT; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW;

CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FREEZE DRYING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 68949191164     PISSN: 19348525     EISSN: 19348533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/9780471729259.mc10c01s14     Document Type: Review

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