Reconsidering the antiquity of leprosy [3]

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5775, 2006, Pages 846-

  Pinhasi, Ron ^a   Foley, Robert ^b   Donoghue, Helen D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies   (United Kingdom)

^c Windeyer Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LEPROSY; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33646585174     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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