Detection and Molecular Characterization of 9000-Year-Old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the principal etiologic agent of human tuberculosis. It has no environmental reservoir and is believed to have co-evolved with its host over millennia. This is supported by skeletal evidence of the disease in early humans, and inferred from M. tuberculosis g...

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Autores principales: Hershkovitz, Israel, Donoghue, Helen D., Minnikin, David E., Besra, Gurdyal S., Lee, Oona Y-C., Gernaey, Angela M., Galili, Ehud, Eshed, Vered, Greenblatt, Charles L., Lemma, Eshetu, Bar-Gal, Gila Kahila, Spigelman, Mark
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2565837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18923677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003426

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