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Riccardo Manganelli1, Lanfranco Fattorini, Dejiang Tan, Elisabetta Iona, Graziella Orefici, Giuseppe Altavilla, Paola Cusatelli, Issar Smith.
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The virulence of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv sigE mutant was studied in immunodeficient and immunocompetent mice. The mutant was strongly attenuated in both animal models and induced formation of granulomas with different characteristics than those induced by the wild-type strain.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15102817 PMCID: PMC387853 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.5.3038-3041.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441