Deciphering the Growth Behaviour of Mycobacterium africanum

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gehre, Florian ^a,b   Otu, Jacob ^b   DeRiemer, Kathryn ^c   de Sessions, Paola Florez ^d   Hibberd, Martin L ^d   Mulders, Wim ^a   Corrah, Tumani ^b   de Jong, Bouke C ^a,b,e   Antonio, Martin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Medical Research Council Unit   (Gambia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL GENE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84878521932     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002220     Document Type: Article

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