Pre-columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of new world human tuberculosis

Modern strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Americas are closely related to those from Europe, supporting the assumption that human tuberculosis was introduced post-contact1. This notion, however, is incompatible with archaeological evidence of pre-contact tuberculosis in the New World2. C...

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Autores principales:	Bos, Kirsten I., Harkins, Kelly M., Herbig, Alexander, Coscolla, Mireia, Weber, Nico, Comas, Iñaki, Forrest, Stephen A., Bryant, Josephine M., Harris, Simon R., Schuenemann, Verena J., Campbell, Tessa J., Majander, Kerrtu, Wilbur, Alicia K., Guichon, Ricardo A., Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe, Cook, Della Collins, Niemann, Stefan, Behr, Marcel A., Zumarraga, Martin Jose, Bastida, Ricardo, Huson, Daniel, Nieselt, Kay, Young, Douglas, Parkhill, Julian, Buikstra, Jane E., Gagneux, Sebastien, Stone, Anne C., Krause, Johannes
Formato:	Artículo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	Springer Nature 2020
Materias:	Tuberculosis Infección Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genomas Enfermedades Humanas Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections Genomes Human Diseases
Acceso en línea:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8175 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13591 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13591