Paleopathological and biomolecular study
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S. Mays; G.M. Taylor; A.J. Legge; D.B. Young; G. Turner-Walker
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Nine human skeletons of medieval date from a rural English burial site show signs of skeletal tuberculosis. They were subject to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays aimed at detecting traces of DNA from infecting mycobacteria, with the purpose both of confirming the paleopathological