Eighteenth-century genomes show that mixed infections were common at time of peak tuberculosis in Europe

Tuberculosis (TB) was once a major killer in Europe, but it is unclear how the strains and patterns of infection at ‘peak TB' relate to what we see today. Here we describe 14 genome sequences of M. tuberculosis, representing 12 distinct genotypes, obtained from human remains from eighteenth-cen...

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Autores principales: Kay, Gemma L., Sergeant, Martin J., Zhou, Zhemin, Chan, Jacqueline Z.-M., Millard, Andrew, Quick, Joshua, Szikossy, Ildikó, Pap, Ildikó, Spigelman, Mark, Loman, Nicholas J., Achtman, Mark, Donoghue, Helen D., Pallen, Mark J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25848958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7717

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25848958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7717

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