Detection and Strain Typing of Ancient Mycobacterium leprae from a Medieval Leprosy Hospital

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Taylor, G Michael ^a   Tucker, Katie ^b   Butler, Rachel ^a   Pike, Alistair W G ^c   Lewis, Jamie ^d   Roffey, Simon ^b   Marter, Philip ^b   Lee, Oona Y C ^e   Wu, Houdini H T ^e   Minnikin, David E ^e   Besra, Gurdyal S ^e   Singh, Pushpendra ^f   Cole, Stewart T ^f   Stewart, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOLIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CADAVER; ENAMEL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGES; MIDDLE EAST; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BONE; GENETICS; HISTORY; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

BONE AND BONES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84877002533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062406     Document Type: Article

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