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What can Mycobacteriophages Tell Us About Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all of the many researchers in my laboratory who have contributed to the studies described in this chapter over a period of years, as well to my excellent faculty colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere. I am truly grateful to the National Institutes of Health for the support of our research programs over a period of many years. I would like to extend special thanks to Dr. Georgiev and his colleagues at the NIAID Office of Global Research for inviting me to participate in the NIAID 2006 Research Conference in Opatija, Croatia, in June 2006 and for inviting me to contribute this chapter.

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Hatfull, G.F. (2008). What can Mycobacteriophages Tell Us About Mycobacterium tuberculosis?. In: Georgiev, V.S., Western, K.A., McGowan, J.J. (eds) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH. Infectious Disease. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-569-5_8

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