Historical intensity of natural selection for resistance to tuberculosis

Genetics

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1599-1607

  Lipsitch, Marc ^a   Sousa, Alexandra O ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SWEDEN; VITAL STATISTICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALE; MORTALITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036671453     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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