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Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains

2016-03-20

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There are many reports of ancient DNA from bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) being present in skeletons with and without osteological indications of tuberculosis. A possible complication in these studies is that extracts might also contain DNA from the microbiome of the individual whose remains are being analysed and/or from environmental bacteria that have colonised the skeleton after deat...

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Literature Corpus work: 7204a772-0530-5d21-b488-22621d218440
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.03.002

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