DNA sequences of Mycobacterium leprae recovered from ancient bones

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 413-414

  Montiel, Rafael ^a,e   García, Carlos ^a   Cañadas, Maria P ^b   Isidro, Albert ^a,c   Guijo, José M ^d   Malgosa, Assumpció ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b General Lab   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI SAGRAT COR   (Spain)

^d Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Historico   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Mycobacterium leprae; Paleobacteriology; Twelfth century

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM DETECTION; BONE; BONE DESTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; METACARPAL BONE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ADULT; GENETICS; HISTORY; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPROSY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SPAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; BONE AND BONES; DNA, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPAIN;

EID: 0642346954     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00617-7     Document Type: Letter

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