Identification of a virulence gene cluster of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by signature‐tagged transposon mutagenesis
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- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 34 (2) , 257-267
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01593.x
Abstract
Tuberculosis remains the greatest cause of death worldwide due to a single pathogen. In order to identify the genes required for the pathogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a functional genomic ...Keywords
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