Volume 9, Number 7—July 2003

Research

Mutations in Putative Mutator Genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains of the W-Beijing Family

Mina Ebrahimi Rad*, Pablo Bifani†, Carlos Martin‡, Kristin Kremer§, Sofia Samper‡, Jean Rauzier*, Barry Kreiswirth¶, Jesus Blazquez#, Marc Jouan*, Dick van Soolingen§, and Brigitte Gicquel* 

Author affiliations: *Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; †Institut Pasteur, Lille, France; ‡Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; §National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; ¶Public Health Research Institute, Newark, New Jersey, USA; #National Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain

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Figure 3. Schematic representation of a plausible pathway to explain the accumulation of mutations in mut genes.

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