Human Genetic Ancestral Composition Correlates with the Origin of Mycobacterium leprae Strains in a Leprosy Endemic Population

ABSTRACT: Recent reports have suggested that leprosy originated in Africa, extended to Asia and Europe, and arrived in the Americas during European colonization and the African slave trade. Due to colonization, the contemporary Colombian population is an admixture of Native-American, European and Af...

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Autores:

Cardona Castro, Nora
Cortés Moreno, Edwin Ovidio
Beltrán Alzate, Juan Camilo
Romero Montoya, Marcela
Badel Mogollón, Jaime
Bedoya Berrío, Gabriel de Jesús

Tipo de recurso:

Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

2015

Institución:

Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:

Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/23716

Acceso en línea:

http://hdl.handle.net/10495/23716

Palabra clave:

Mycobacterium leprae
Lepra
Leprosy
Migración Humana
Human Migration

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openAccess

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/co/