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Gaëlle S Kolly1, Claudia Sala, Anthony Vocat

  • 1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Global Health Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland.

FEMS Microbiology Letters
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PubMed

Keywords:
Mycobacterium tuberculosisconditional mutanttransketolase Tkttuberculosis

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