Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis
Bos, K.I.; Harkins, K.M.; Herbig, A.; Coscolla, M.; Weber, N.; Comas, I.; Forrest, S.A.; Bryant, J.M.; Harris, S.R.; Schuenemann, V.J. (2014). Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis. Nature (Lond.) 514(7523): 494–497. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13591
In: Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 0028-0836; e-ISSN 1476-4687, more
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Authors | | Top |
- Bos, K.I.
- Harkins, K.M.
- Herbig, A.
- Coscolla, M.
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- Weber, N.
- Comas, I.
- Forrest, S.A.
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- Bryant, J.M.
- Harris, S.R.
- Schuenemann, V.J.
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Abstract |
Three 1,000-year-old mycobacterial genomes from Peruvian human skeletons reveal that a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex derived from seals caused human disease before contact in the Americas. |
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