Attempts to revive Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 300-year-old human mummies

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-61

  Lemma, Eshetu ^a   Zimhony, Oren ^b   Greenblatt, Charles L ^b,d   Koltunov, Viktoria ^b   Zylber, María Inés ^b   Vernon, Kim ^b   Spigelman, Mark ^b,c  

^a ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial culture; Dormancy; Human mummies; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GUINEA PIG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOCULATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PASTEURIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TISSUE CULTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUMMIES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; THORACIC CAVITY;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 42649110369     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01150.x     Document Type: Article

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