To catch a killer. What can mycobacterial models teach us about Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis?

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-92

  Shiloh, Michael U ^a   DiGiuseppe Champion, Patricia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; PROTEIN SECA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DISEASE MODEL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 75249096198     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.11.006     Document Type: Review

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