Mycobacterium avium-triggered diseases: Pathogenomics

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 808-818

  Ignatov, Dmitriy ^a   Kondratieva, Elena ^b   Azhikina, Tatyana ^a   Apt, A ^b  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b CENTRAL TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOST CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM HOMINISSUIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM;

EID: 84861198247     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2012.01776.x     Document Type: Review

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