Many neglected tropical diseases may have originated in the Paleolithic or before: New insights from genetics

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Trueba, Gabriel ^a   Dunthorn, Micah ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANTIQUITY; EVOLUTION; HOST; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; PALEOLITHIC; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TREPONEMATOSIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; ANIMAL; HISTORY; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PRIMATES;

EID: 84859206090     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001393     Document Type: Review

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