Mycobacterium versus Streptomyces-we are different, we are the same

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 699-707

  Scherr, Nicole ^a   Nguyen, Liem ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

CELL WALL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 71549138788     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.10.003     Document Type: Review

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