Authors: David M. Wagner, Jennifer Klunk, Michaela Harbeck, Alison Devault, Nicholas Waglechner, Jason W. Sahl, Jacob Enk, Dawn N. Birdsell, Melanie Kuch, Candice Y. Lumibao, Debi Poinar, Talima Pearson, Mathieu Fourment, Brian Golding, Julia M. Riehm, David J. D. Earn, Sharon N. DeWitte, Jean Marie Rouillard, Gisela Grupe, Ingrid Wiechmann, James B. Bliska, Paul Keim, Holger C. Scholz, Edward C. Holmes, Hendrik N. Poinar
Venue: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Type: Publication
Abstract: Summary Background Yersinia pestis has caused at least three human plague pandemics. The second (Black Death, 14–17th centuries) and third (19–20th centuries) have been genetically characterised, but there is only a limited understanding of the first pandemic, the Plague of Justinian (6–8th centuries). To address this gap, we sequenced and analysed draft genomes of Y pestis obtained from two individuals who died in the first pandemic. Methods Teeth were removed from two individuals (known as A120 and A76) from the early medieval Aschheim-...
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Virology
Evolutionary biology
Genetics
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