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Multi-omic detection of Mycobacterium leprae in archaeological human dental calculus

Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient biomolecules. Here we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative agent of leprosy, recovered via shotgun sequencing of sixteenth-century human dental calculus from an individual from Trondheim,...

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Autores principales: Fotakis, Anna K., Denham, Sean D., Mackie, Meaghan, Orbegozo, Miren Iraeta, Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Olsen, Jesper V., Cappellini, Enrico, Zhang, Guojie, Christophersen, Axel, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Vågene, Åshild J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7702802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33012227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0584