Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans.

Tuberculosis caused 20% of all human deaths in the Western world between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and remains a cause of high mortality in developing countries. In analogy to other crowd diseases, the origin of human tuberculosis has been associated with the Neolithic Demographic Tra...

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Main Authors: Comas, I, Coscolla, M, Luo, T, Borrell, S, Holt, K, Kato-Maeda, M, Parkhill, J, Malla, B, Berg, S, Thwaites, G, Yeboah-Manu, D, Bothamley, G, Mei, J, Wei, L, Bentley, S, Harris, SR, Niemann, S, Diel, R, Aseffa, A, Gao, Q, Young, D, Gagneux, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013