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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 hypothesised. Here, porin genes from M. fortuitum were cloned and characterised to address their impact on the growth rate of...
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