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Today, an estimated one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis [ 1 2 ] , and tuberculosis causes about 2 million deaths annually [ 1 2 ] . Many aspects of the interactions between M. tuberculosis and its human host remain unclear.
It may also be possible to use this gene expression data to elucidate the mechanisms of action of toxic agents and identify the causative agent, thus facilitating better preventive or palliative action.
2001) and, by directly altering reproductive patterns, may be a causative agent of host speciation (Bordenstein et al.
This donor splice site is normally a G but in 1805 sites examined in the human genome, only 8 times is it a T [ 23 ] . The predicted aberrant splicing of exon 7 makes this a likely causative mutation in this patient.
The early onset of mitochondrial degeneration suggests that mutant SOD1 damages mitochondria and this damage plays a causative role in motoneuron degeneration.