Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lipid virulence factors preserved in the 17,000-year-old skeleton of an extinct bison, bison antiquus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Oona Y C ^a   Wu, Houdini H T ^a   Donoghue, Helen D ^b   Spigelman, Mark ^b,c   Greenblatt, Charles L ^c   Bull, Ian D ^d   Rothschild, Bruce M ^e,f   Martin, Larry D ^f   Minnikin, David E ^a   Besra, Gurdyal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e Northeastern Ohio Medical University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LIPID VIRULENCE FACTOR; MYCOCEROSIC ACID; MYCOLIC ACID; MYCOLIPENIC ACID; PHTHIOCEROL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; LIPID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BISON ANTIQUUS; BUFFALO; ESTERIFICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETON; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BISON; BONE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON ANTIQUUS; BISON BISON; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; BISON; BONE AND BONES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84864487201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041923     Document Type: Article

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