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    STUDIA BIOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2014  
         
  Article:   TECHNIQUES USED FOR THE DIAGNOSTIC OF ANCIENT TUBERCULOSIS IN HUMAN REMAINS.

Authors:  CECILIA CHIRIAC, ANDRA-SORINA TĂTAR, CLAUDIA RADU, IULIA LUPAN, BEATRICE KELEMEN.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  VIEW PDF: TECHNIQUES USED FOR THE DIAGNOSTIC OF ANCIENT TUBERCULOSIS IN HUMAN REMAINS

Tuberculosis is today one of the most spread infectious human diseases, being caused by a group of closely related species included in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Molecular studies targeting tuberculosis affected human remains are important in order to understand the evolution of specific genomic sites related to virulence. The aim of this review is to describe several techniques that are useful for the confirmation of pathogen persistence in the human archaeological remains. It also presents the genomic loci investigated in the field of molecular bioarchaeology for discrimination of MTBC species.

Keywords: tuberculosis, FT-IR, MALDI-TOF-MS, HPLC, ancient-DNA
 
         
     
         
         
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