Open AccessOn the Origin of American Tuberculosis
Author(s) -
P. A. Mackowiak,
Vera Tiesler Blos,
M. Aguilar,
Jane E. Buikstra
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/432013
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , mycobacterium bovis , mycobacterium tuberculosis , mycobacterium tuberculosis complex , mycobacterium infections , virology , mycobacterium , pathology
After more than a century of debate, it is now firmly established that tuberculosis existed in the New World before the arrival of Columbus. What is not yet known is how or when, exactly, the infection reached the Americas, how it spread from one continent to the other, and whether the pre-Columbian infection was caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis.
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