Individual RD1‐region genes are required for export of ESAT‐6/CFP‐10 and for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 51 (2), 359-370
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03844.x
Abstract
The RD1 genomic region is present in virulent strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), missing from the vaccine strain M. bovis BCG, and its importance to virulence has been established experimen...Keywords
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