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Paleomicrobiology: Past Human Infections

By Didier Raoult , Michel Drancourt

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2008
ISBN
3540758542, 9783540758549, 9783540758556
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4792640 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
224\224
Topic
Biology
Library
duansci.com
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

"Paleomicrobiology Past Human Infections" features the methods and main achievements in this emerging field of research at the intersection of microbiology and evolution, history and anthropology. New molecular approaches have already provided exciting results, such as confirmation of a single biotype of Yersinia pestis as the causative agent of historical plague pandemics, and the closer proximity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from ancient skeletons to modern strains than to Mycobacterium bovis, shedding new light on the evolution of major human pathogens and pathogen population relationships. Firm microbiological diagnoses also provide historians and anthropologists with new data on which to base evaluation of past epidemics.

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