Mycobacteriophages: Windows into Tuberculosis

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; TRANSPOSON; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84897402011     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003953     Document Type: Article

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