Recognising the broad array of approaches available for the diagnosis of ancient tuberculosis: Comment on ‘Infectious diseases and Neolithic transformations’ (Fuchs et al. 2019 The Holocene 29: 1545–1557):

David E. Minnikin,Oona Y-C. Lee,Houdini Ht Wu,Gurdyal S. Besra,Helen D. Donoghue

Recognising the broad array of approaches available for the diagnosis of ancient tuberculosis: Comment on ‘Infectious diseases and Neolithic transformations’ (Fuchs et al. 2019 The Holocene 29: 1545–1557):

2020

David E. Minnikin
Oona Y-C. Lee
Houdini Ht Wu
Gurdyal S. Besra
Helen D. Donoghue

The characterisation of ancient tuberculosis is not totally dependent on the recovery of intact genomes. Judicious combinations of ancient DNA fragments and specific lipid biomarkers provide unambi...

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Evolutionary biology
Ancient DNA
Tuberculosis
Geology
Holocene
Paleopathology
Pleistocene megafauna
Climatology
lipid biomarkers

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