Essentials in the use of mycolic acid biomarkers for tuberculosis detection: Response to " High-throughput mass spectrometric analysis of 1400-year-old mycolic acids as biomarkers for ancient tuberculosis infection" by Mark et al., 2010

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2407-2412

  Minnikin, David E ^a   Lee, Oona Y C ^a   Pitts, Mark ^b   Baird, Mark S ^b   Besra, Gurdyal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOMARKER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77955276943     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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