Historical Y. pestis Genomes Reveal the European Black Death as the Source of Ancient and Modern Plague Pandemics

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 874-881

  Spyrou, Maria A ^a   Tukhbatova, Rezeda I ^b,c   Feldman, Michal ^a   Drath, Joanna ^d   Kacki, Sacha ^e   Beltrán De Heredia, Julia ^f   Arnold, Susanne ^g   Sitdikov, Airat G ^b,c   Castex, Dominique ^e   Wahl, Joachim ^d,h   Gazimzyanov, Ilgizar R ^c   Nurgaliev, Danis K ^b   Herbig, Alexander ^a   Bos, Kirsten I ^a   Krause, Johannes ^a,d  

^a Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^b KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Ecology and Subsoil Use of Tatars Tan Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^f Museu de Historia de Barcelona   (Spain)

^g Head of Preventive Archaeology Baden Württemberg State Office for Cultural Heritage   (Germany)

^h State Office for Cultural Heritage Management Baden Wuerttemberg Osteology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BACTERIAL GENOME; DEATH; EUROPEAN; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS; ASIA; BONE; DISEASE CARRIER; EUROPE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; TOOTH;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ASIA; BONE AND BONES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; TOOTH; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84973483837     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.05.012     Document Type: Article

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