An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7130, 2007, Pages 915-918

  Linz, Bodo ^a   Balloux, François ^b   Moodley, Yoshan ^a   Manica, Andrea ^b   Liu, Hua ^b   Roumagnac, Philippe ^a   Falush, Daniel ^c   Stamer, Christiana ^a   Prugnolle, Franck ^d   Van Der Merwe, Schalk W ^e   Yamaoka, Yoshio ^f   Graham, David Y ^f   Perez Trallero, Emilio ^g   Wadstrom, Torkel ^h   Suerbaum, Sebastian ⁱ   Achtman, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CLINE; GENETIC ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SIMULATION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTERITIS; EUROPE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 33847201150     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05562     Document Type: Article

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