Differential expression of iron-, carbon-, and oxygen-responsive mycobacterial genes in the lungs of chronically infected mice and tuberculosis patients.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on November 17, 2003

Authors

Juliano Timm1, Frank A Post, Linda-Gail Bekker, Gabriele B Walther, Helen C Wainwright, Riccardo Manganelli, Wai-Tsing Chan, Liana Tsenova, Benjamin Gold, Issar Smith, Gilla Kaplan, John D McKinney

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1: The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.

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