Detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA from archaeological skeletal remains in Japan using whole genome amplification and polymerase chain reaction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Suzuki, Koichi ^a   Takigawa, Wataru ^b   Tanigawa, Kazunari ^a   Nakamura, Kazuaki ^c   Ishido, Yuko ^a   Kawashima, Akira ^a   Wu, Huhehasi ^a   Akama, Takeshi ^a   Sue, Mariko ^a   Yoshihara, Aya ^a   Mori, Shuichi ^a   Ishii, Norihisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PALEOPATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKELETON; ARCHEOLOGY; BACTERIAL GENOME; CADAVER; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BASE SEQUENCE; CADAVER; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77957864842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012422     Document Type: Article

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