Detection and Molecular Characterization of 9000-Year-Old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean

• Israel Hershkovitz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Hershkovitz, Helen D. Donoghue

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Helen D. Donoghue ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Hershkovitz, Helen D. Donoghue

  * E-mail: h.donoghue@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• David E. Minnikin,

  Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Gurdyal S. Besra,

  Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Oona Y-C. Lee,

  Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Angela M. Gernaey,

  Current address: None available. AMG was affiliated with the University of Salford until April 30, 2007.

  Affiliation Biosciences Research Institute, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

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• Ehud Galili,

  Affiliation Marine Archaeology Branch, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Vered Eshed,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Charles L. Greenblatt,

  Affiliation Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Eshetu Lemma,

  Current address: Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  Affiliation Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Gila Kahila Bar-Gal,

  Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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• Mark Spigelman

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

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