Adaptation to environmental stimuli within the host: Two-component signal transduction systems of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 566-582

  Bretl, Daniel J ^a   Demetriadou, Chrystalla ^a   Zahrt, Thomas C ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CYTOPLASM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC CODE; HOST; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84455173453     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: 10985557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.05004-11     Document Type: Review

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