Article
Molecular analysis of a leprosy immunotherapeutic bacillus provides insights into Mycobacterium evolution.
PloS one - 3 Oct 2007
Ahmed Niyaz, Saini Vikram, Raghuvanshi Saurabh, Khurana Jitendra P, Tyagi Akhilesh K, Tyagi Anil K, Hasnain Seyed E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Evolutionary dynamics plays a central role in facilitating the mechanisms of species divergence among pathogenic and saprophytic mycobacteria. The ability of mycobacteria to colonize hosts, to proliferate and to cause diseases has evolved due to its predisposition to various evolutionary forces acting over a period of time. Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP), a taxonomically unknown 'generalist'...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.