The causative agent of human tuberculosis (TB), M ycobacterium tuberculosis, is an obligate
pathogen that evolved to exclusively persist in human populations. For M. tuberculosis to …

It has been more than two decades since the formulation of the so‐called 'trade‐
off'hypothesis as an alternative to the then commonly accepted idea that parasites should …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of antiquity. Yet TB today still causes more adult deaths than
any other single infectious disease. Recent studies show that contrary to the common view …

Leprosy was endemic in Europe until the Middle Ages. Using DNA array capture, we have
obtained genome sequences of Mycobacterium leprae from skeletons of five medieval …

Some species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), particularly
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes human tuberculosis (TB), are the first cause of …

Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the principal etiologic agent of human
tuberculosis. It has no environmental reservoir and is believed to have co-evolved with its …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one third of the human world population and kills
someone every 15 seconds. For more than a century, scientists and clinicians have been …

Prevalent since pre-history, human tuberculosis—caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium
tuberculosis—remains a major source of death worldwide. Moreover, increasing drug …

Palaeomicrobiology has detected the tuberculosis agent in animal and human skeletons
that are thousands of years old. The German doctor Robert Koch was the first microbiologist …