Presence of Helicobacter pylori in a Mexican Pre-Columbian Mummy

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Castillo Rojas, Gonzalo ^a   Cerbón, Marco A ^a   López Vidal, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; UREASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; MEXICO; PALEOPATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH; TONGUE; ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEXICO; MUMMIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STOMACH; UREASE;

EID: 47849114557     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-119     Document Type: Article

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