Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones

Three different lineages of head lice are known to parasitize humans. Clade A, which is currently worldwide in distribution, was previously demonstrated to be present in the Americas before the time of Columbus. The two other types of head lice are geographically restricted to America and Australia...

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Autores principales: Boutellis, Amina, Drali, Rezak, Rivera, Mario A., Mumcuoglu, Kosta Y., Raoult, Didier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24204678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076818
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Drali, Rezak
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description Three different lineages of head lice are known to parasitize humans. Clade A, which is currently worldwide in distribution, was previously demonstrated to be present in the Americas before the time of Columbus. The two other types of head lice are geographically restricted to America and Australia for clade B and to Africa and Asia for clade C. In this study, we tested two operculated nits from a 4,000-year-old Chilean mummy of Camarones for the presence of the partial Cytb mitochondrial gene (270 bp). Our finding shows that clade B head lice were present in America before the arrival of the European colonists.
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spelling pubmed-38136972013-11-07 Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones Boutellis, Amina Drali, Rezak Rivera, Mario A. Mumcuoglu, Kosta Y. Raoult, Didier PLoS One Research Article Three different lineages of head lice are known to parasitize humans. Clade A, which is currently worldwide in distribution, was previously demonstrated to be present in the Americas before the time of Columbus. The two other types of head lice are geographically restricted to America and Australia for clade B and to Africa and Asia for clade C. In this study, we tested two operculated nits from a 4,000-year-old Chilean mummy of Camarones for the presence of the partial Cytb mitochondrial gene (270 bp). Our finding shows that clade B head lice were present in America before the arrival of the European colonists. Public Library of Science 2013-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3813697/ /pubmed/24204678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076818 Text en © 2013 Boutellis et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Boutellis, Amina
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Rivera, Mario A.
Mumcuoglu, Kosta Y.
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Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones
title Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones
title_full Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones
title_fullStr Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones
title_full_unstemmed Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones
title_short Evidence of Sympatry of Clade A and Clade B Head Lice in a Pre-Columbian Chilean Mummy from Camarones
title_sort evidence of sympatry of clade a and clade b head lice in a pre-columbian chilean mummy from camarones
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24204678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076818
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