The rise and fall of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 156-161

  Veyrier, Frédéric J ^a   Dufort, Alexander ^b   Behr, Marcel A ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79953284686     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.12.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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