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The 5,300-year-old Helicobacter pylori genome of the Iceman
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Stomach ache for a European mummy Five thousand years ago in the European Alps, a man was shot by an arrow, then clubbed to death. His body was subsequently mummified by ice until glacier retreat exhumed him in 1991. Subsequently, this ancient corpse has provided a trove of intriguing information about copper-age Europeans. Now, Maixner et al. have identified the human pathogen Helicobacter pylori within the mummy's stomach contents. The strain the “Iceman” hosted appears to most closely resemble pathogenic Asian strains found today in Central and Southern Asia. Science , this issue p. 162
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
DNA, Bacterial
Asia
Demographic history
Human Migration
030106 microbiology
Zoology
Biology
Genome
Article
Helicobacter Infections
03 medical and health sciences
Iceman
Phylogenetics
Humans
Ice Cover
Phylogeny
Multidisciplinary
Helicobacter pylori
Human migration
business.industry
Stomach
Chromosome Mapping
Chalcolithic
Mummies
Sequence Analysis, DNA
biology.organism_classification
Europe
Phylogeography
030104 developmental biology
Hybridization, Genetic
business
Genome, Bacterial
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7394c9c379d14c2012e26eb35884218c