Mce2 operon mutant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is attenuated in C57BL/6 mice

Tuberculosis

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-56

  Marjanovic, Olivera ^a   Miyata, Toshiko ^a   Goodridge, Amador ^a   Kendall, Lon V ^b   Riley, Lee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

mce; mce2 operon mutant; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; operons

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REPLICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MCE2 GENE; MORBIDITY; MOUSE; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 75149161304     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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