Detecting the immune system response of a 500 year-Old Inca Mummy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Corthals, Angelique ^a,b   Koller, Antonius ^b   Martin, Dwight W ^b   Rieger, Robert ^b   Chen, Emily I ^b   Bernaski, Mario ^c   Recagno, Gabriella ^c   Dávalos, Liliana M ^d  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Museo de Arqueologia de Alta Montaña MAAM   (Argentina)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOTHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG INFECTION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; ORAL BIOPSY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; TIME OF DEATH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MUMMIES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM SP.;

EID: 84864375664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041244     Document Type: Article

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