Brief communication: Co-detection of Bartonella quintana and Yersinia pestis in an 11th-15th burial site in Bondy, France

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 489-494

  Tran, Thi Nguyen Ny ^a   Forestier, Cyrille Le ^b   Drancourt, Michel ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Aboudharam, Gérard ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

"suicide PCR"; Bondy; dental pulp; plague

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAGUE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TOOTH PULP; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BARTONELLA QUINTANA; CEMETERIES; DENTAL PULP; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PALEODONTOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETON; TOOTH; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 79959300818     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21510     Document Type: Review

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