Molecular identification of bacteria by total sequence screening: Determining the cause of death in ancient human subjects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Thèves, Catherine ^a,b   Senescau, Alice ^b   Vanin, Stefano ^c   Keyser, Christine ^a   Ricaut, François Xavier ^a   Alekseev, Anatoly N ^e   Dabernat, Henri ^a   Ludes, Bertrand ^a,d   Fabre, Richard ^b   Crubézy, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Laboratoire Bio Pole   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT DE MÉDECINE LÉGALE   (France)

^e NORTH EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA PARAPERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA PETRII; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERMAFROST; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOSSILS; FREEZING; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIBERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA SP.; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84855258227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021733     Document Type: Article

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