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| Title |
Illegitimate recombination: An efficient method for random mutagenesis in Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis
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| Published in |
BMC Microbiology, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-12-204 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Faisal Asghar Khattak, Ashutosh Kumar, Elisabeth Kamal, Ralph Kunisch, Astrid Lewin |
| Abstract |
The genus Mycobacterium (M.) comprises highly pathogenic bacteria such as M. tuberculosis as well as environmental opportunistic bacteria called non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). While the incidence of tuberculosis is declining in the developed world, infection rates by NTM are increasing. NTM are ubiquitous and have been isolated from soil, natural water sources, tap water, biofilms, aerosols, dust and sawdust. Lung infections as well as lymphadenitis are most often caused by M. avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH), which is considered to be among the clinically most important NTM. Only few virulence genes from M. avium have been defined among other things due to difficulties in generating M. avium mutants. More efforts in developing new methods for mutagenesis of M. avium and identification of virulence-associated genes are therefore needed. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 47 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Ghana | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 45 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 17% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 12 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 23% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 9 | 19% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 11% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 15 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 April 2022.
All research outputs
#7,489,392
of 23,543,207 outputs
Outputs from BMC Microbiology
#842
of 3,257 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#54,290
of 169,758 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#8
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,543,207 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,257 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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