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Tuberculosis vaccine strain Mycobacterium bovis BCG Russia is a natural recA mutant

Peter M Keller1 email, Erik C Böttger1,2 email and Peter Sander1,2 email

1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universität Zürich, Gloriastrasse 30/32, CH-8006 Zürich, Switzerland

2Nationales Zentrum für Mykobakterien, Gloriastrasse 30, CH-8006 Zürich, Switzerland

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BMC Microbiology 2008, 8:120doi:10.1186/1471-2180-8-120

Published: 17 July 2008

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Additional file 1:

Cloning of recA knock-out vector. Additional figure 1 showing the cloning steps of pGEM7-recA::3xstop-hsp60-sacB-hyg-aph with a 22-bp triple translation stop insert.

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Additional file 2:

recA amplification and sequencing primers. Additional table 1 containing the recA amplification and sequencing primers.

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