Transcriptional profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection: Lessons learned

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Ward, Sarah K ^a   Abomoelak, Bassam ^a   Marcus, Sarah A ^a   Talaat, Adel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Pathogenesis; Transcriptional profiling; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960428903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2010.00121     Document Type: Review

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