Evaluating bacterial pathogen DNA preservation in museum osteological collections

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1587, 2006, Pages 645-653

  Barnes, Ian ^a,b   Thomas, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Bone; Evolution; Medicine; Syphilis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BACTERIUM; BONE; DNA; MEDICINE; OSTEOLOGY; PATHOGEN; PRESERVATION; SKELETAL REMAINS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TUBERCULOSIS; ADULT; AGED; BONE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSEUMS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33646454480     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3339     Document Type: Article

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