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Ancient Skeletal Evidence for Leprosy in India (2000 B.C.)

BACKGROUND: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that affects almost 250,000 people worldwide. The timing of first infection, geographic origin, and pattern of transmission of the disease are still under investigation. Comparative genomics research has suggested M....

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Autores principales: Robbins, Gwen, Tripathy, V. Mushrif, Misra, V. N., Mohanty, R. K., Shinde, V. S., Gray, Kelsey M., Schug, Malcolm D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19479078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005669