Building a better bacillus: The emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Joyce ^a   Behr, Marcel A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Horizontal gene transfer; M. tuberculosis specific genes; Mycobacterium kansasii; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID; TRANSPOSASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BURKHOLDERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MICROMONOSPORA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84899691836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00139     Document Type: Article

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