Pathogen hunters: Using ancient DNA to authenticate the presence of M. tuberculosis and other pathogens in ancient Pacific populations

Description:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has affected human populations for the past several thousand years. But despite the antiquity of the disease, we know little about where the bacteria originated and how it spread across the globe. How and when tuberculosis arrived in the Pacific is particularly unclear. Extant tuberculosis strains in the Pacific indicate that tuberculosis was introduced by Europeans i...

Display date:

2022

Format:

Scholarly text

Collections:

Otago University Research Archive

Contributors:

Knapp, Michael

Publisher:

University of Otago

Content partner:

University of Otago

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