Sequential adaptation in latent tuberculosis bacilli: Observation by atomic force microscopy (AFM)

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 193-199

  Velayati, Ali Akbar ^a   Farnia, Parissa ^a,b   Masjedi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Zhavnerko, Gennady Konstantinovich ^b,c   Merza, Muayad Aghali ^a   Ghanavi, Jalladein ^d   Tabarsi, Payam ^a   Farnia, Poopak ^d   Poleschuyk, Nikolai Nikolaevich ^b   Ignatyev, George ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b The Republican Research and Practical Centre for Epidemiology and and Microbiology   (Belarus)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS   (Belarus)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Latent TB bacilli; Oxygen depletion

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL WALL THICKENING; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORMANCY; HEAT TOLERANCE; LATENT PERIOD; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS BACILLUS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NON ACID FAST BACILLUS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PROGENY;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80053595898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19405901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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