Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of European archaeological M. leprae DNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Watson, Claire L ^a   Lockwood, Diana N J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKELETON; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 70449591268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007547     Document Type: Article

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