Protein synthesis is shutdown in dormantMycobacterium tuberculosisand is reversed by oxygen or heat shock
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- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 158 (1), 139-145
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb12813.x
Abstract
Oxygen-limiting conditions are critical to the survival of the bacteria in tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis can survive anaerobiosis in vitroKeywords
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