Evidence for a rapid rate of molecular evolution at the hypervariable and immunogenic Mycobacterium tuberculosis PPE38 gene region

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  McEvoy, Christopher Re ^a   Van Helden, Paul D ^a   Warren, Robin M ^a   Van Pittius, Nicolaas C Gey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LINEAGE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 70350499473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-237     Document Type: Article

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