Yersinia pestis: new evidence for an old infection.

The successful reconstruction of an ancient bacterial genome from archaeological material presents an important methodological advancement for infectious disease research. The reliability of evolutionary histories inferred by the incorporation of ancient data, however, are highly contingent upon the...

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Main Authors: Kirsten I Bos, Philip Stevens, Kay Nieselt, Hendrik N Poinar, Sharon N Dewitte, Johannes Krause
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23209603/pdf/?tool=EBI