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The use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> in ancient skeletons

1993-06-01

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Abstract The polymerase chain reaction has been used to extract ancient DNA from a wide range of different types of material. We have considered the possibility of finding residual bacterial DNA in bone that may have been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis using this technique. We propose a method of collecting samples and testing for the presence of degraded genetic material in ancient bone. The steps of th...

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Literature Corpus work: 04c0d158-c905-5575-a41b-fbb1ef2bf41f
DOI: 10.1002/oa.1390030211

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