Palaeomicrobiology: Current issues and perspectives

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-35

  Drancourt, Michel ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRUS DNA;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNODETECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIROCHAETA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIRUS INFECTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANOPLURA; BACTERIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME COMPONENTS; GENOTYPE; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PALEODONTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PROTOZOA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA VIRUSES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPIROCHAETA; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 11144345147     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1063     Document Type: Review

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