Screening ancient tuberculosis with qPCR: Challenges and opportunities

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1660, 2015, Pages

  Harkins, Kelly M ^a,e   Buikstra, Jane E ^a   Campbell, Tessa ^c   Bos, Kirsten I ^d   Johnson, Eric D ^b   Krause, Johannes ^d   Stone, Anne C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Bioarchaeology; qPCR; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL REMAINS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPE SPECIMEN;

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

BONE; CHEMISTRY; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRENDS;

BONE AND BONES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84916207365     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0622     Document Type: Article

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