Syphilis at the crossroad of phylogenetics and paleopathology

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  De Melo, Fernando Lucas ^a   De Mello, Joana Carvalho Moreira ^a   Fraga, Ana Maria ^a   Nunes, Kelly ^a   Eggers, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYPHILIS; TIME; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMATOSIS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 76249096367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000575     Document Type: Article

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