First report of Mycobacterium bovis DNA in human remains from the Iron Age

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1243-1249

  Taylor, G Michael ^a,e   Murphy, Eileen ^b   Hopkins, Richard ^a   Rutland, Paul ^c   Chistov, Yuri ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON 14; DNA FRAGMENT; GUANINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIBERIA; SPINE; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34247253099     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/002154-0     Document Type: Article

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