Disease Markers
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 124218, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/124218
Review Article
The Use of Functional Genomics in Conjunction with Metabolomics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Research
School for Physical and Chemical Sciences, Centre for Human Metabonomics, North-West University, Private Bag x6001, Box 269, Potchefstroom 2531, South Africa
Received 20 August 2013; Revised 3 December 2013; Accepted 14 February 2014; Published 18 March 2014
Academic Editor: Andreas Pich
Copyright © 2014 Conrad C. Swanepoel and Du Toit Loots. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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