Demonstration of Allelic Exchange in the Slow-Growing Bacterium Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, and Generation of Mutants with Deletions at the pknG, relA, and lsr2 Loci

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Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74 ( 6 ): 1687 - 1695 , 2008