Paleomicrobiology: Past Human Infections

Paleomicrobiology: Past Human Infections
by Didier Raoult (Editor), Michel Drancourt (Editor)

Product Details
Hardcover: 226 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540758542

Book Description
"Paleomicrobiology Past Human Infections" features the methods and main achievements in this emerging field of research at the intersection of microbiology and evolution, history and anthropology. New molecular approaches have already provided exciting results, such as confirmation of a single biotype of Yersinia pestis as the causative agent of historical plague pandemics, and the closer proximity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from ancient skeletons to modern strains than to Mycobacterium bovis, shedding new light on the evolution of major human pathogens and pathogenpopulation relationships. Firm microbiological diagnoses also provide historians and anthropologists with new data on which to base evaluation of past epidemics.

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