Metagenomic analysis of tuberculosis in a mummy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 289-290

  Chan, Jacqueline Z M ^a   Sergeant, Martin J ^a   Lee, Oona Y C ^b   Minnikin, David E ^b   Besra, Gurdyal S ^b   Pap, Ilidkó ^c   Spigelman, Mark ^d   Donoghue, Helen D ^e   Pallen, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LETTER; METAGENOMICS; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84880405608     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1302295     Document Type: Letter

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