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Volume 19, Number 5—May 2013
Letter

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Remains of 18th–19th Century Slaves, Brazil

Lauren H. Jaeger, Sheila M.F.M. de Souza, Ondemar F. Dias, and Alena M. IñiguezComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (L.H. Jaeger, S.M.F.M. de Souza, A.M. Iñiguez); Instituto de Arqueologia Brasileira, Belford Roxo, Brazil (O.F. Dias).

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Table

Results of genetic analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex hybridization and human mtDNA haplotypes from human bone samples collected from Pretos Novos Cemetery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil*

Sample TB hybridization
Nucleotide position of mtDNA hypervariable segment I†
mtDNA
haplotype
IS6110 IS1081 129 145 148 172 187 189 213 223 278 311 319 320
CRS NA NA G G C T C C G C C T G C H
PN1 + +
PN2
PN3
PN4
PN5
PN6 G G C T C T G T C C G T L3e2
PN7
PN8 + +
PN9
PN10
PN11
PN12
PN13 + +
PN14 G G C T C T G T C T A C L3d1
PN15 + A A C T T C A T L1c2
PN16

*The cemetery was used as a burial ground for African slaves who died in slave markets during 1769–1830. Blank cells mean target could not be retrieved. mtDNA, mitochondrial DNA; TB, tuberculosis; IS, insertion sequence; CRS, Cambridge Reference Sequence (accession no. AB055387); NA, not applicable; PN, bone samples from humans buried in Pretos Novos Cemetery; Abs, absence of nucleotide.
†The prefix 16 has been omitted from the nucleotide numbers.

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