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Characterisation of porin genes from Mycobacterium fortuitum and their impact on growth.
BMC microbiology - 9 Feb 2009
Sharbati Soroush, Schramm Kira, Rempel Sonja, Wang Hwa, Andrich Ronny, Tykiel Verena, Kunisch Ralph, Lewin Astrid
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BACKGROUND: Highly pathogenic mycobacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis are characterised by their slow growth and their ability to reside and multiply in the very hostile phagosomal environment and a correlation between the growth rate of mycobacteria and their pathogenicity has been hypothes...
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