Article
Agents of mycobacterial variations.
Reviews of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Mankiewicz E
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterial variations are determined by physicochemical agents or by genetic transfers. The pioneer work done on the study of the effects of light, radiation, heat, nutritional factors, and drugs is reviewed. Technical and conceptual problems arise in the study of genetic transfer by means of conjugation and transformation in mycobacteria. Transduction and lysogenic conversion are shown to be responsible for...
Topics
- Conjugation, Genetic
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Genetic Variation
- Lysogeny
- Mutation
- Mycobacterium
- Transduction, Genetic