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Mycobacteria : molecular biology and virulence /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ratledge, Colin, Dale, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Science, 1999.
Subjects:
Mycobacterium.
Mycobacterium Infections.
Tuberculosis > diagnosis.
Tuberculosis > therapy.
Virulence.
Table of Contents:
  • Recombination
  • Mobile genetic elements and plasmids : tools for genetic studies
  • Mycobacteriophages
  • Gene expression and regulation
  • Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae
  • Molecular epidemiology : human tuberculosis
  • Molecular epidemiology : Mycobacterium bovis
  • Molecular epidemiology : other mycobacteria
  • Molecular diagnostics
  • Immunodiagnosis of mycobacterial infection
  • Mycobacterial growth and dormancy
  • Cell wall : physical structure and permeability
  • The cell-wall core of Mycobacterium : structure, biogenesis and genetics
  • Iron metabolism
  • Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in mycobacteria
  • Immunotherapy for mycobacterial diseases
  • Vaccines
  • Mycobacterial antigens
  • Mycobacterium and the seduction of the macrophage
  • Cytokines in immunity to tuberculosis.