Gene replacement in Mycobacterium chelonae: application to the construction of porin knock-out mutants.

Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing mycobacterial opportunistic pathogen closely related to Mycobacterium abscessus that causes cornea, skin and soft tissue infections in humans. Although M. chelonae and the emerging mycobacterial pathogen M. abscessus have long been considered to belong to...

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Main Authors: Vinicius Calado Nogueira de Moura, Sara Gibbs, Mary Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3989263?pdf=render