Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 515-518 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 15 2005 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology (medical)
- Infectious Diseases