Deletion of RD1 fromMycobacterium tuberculosisMimics Bacille Calmette‐Guérin Attenuation
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- 1 January 2003
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 187 (1) , 117-123
- https://doi.org/10.1086/345862
Abstract
The tuberculosis (TB) vaccine bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a live attenuated organism, but the mutation responsible for its attenuation has neverKeywords
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