Salmonella enterica from a soldier from the 1652 siege of Barcelona (Spain) supports historical transatlantic epidemic contacts

Summary: Ancient pathogen genomics is an emerging field allowing reconstruction of past epidemics. The demise of post-contact American populations may, at least in part, have been caused by paratyphoid fever brought by Europeans. We retrieved genome-wide data from two Spanish soldiers who were besie...

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Main Authors: Toni de-Dios, Pablo Carrión, Iñigo Olalde, Laia Llovera Nadal, Esther Lizano, Dídac Pàmies, Tomas Marques-Bonet, François Balloux, Lucy van Dorp, Carles Lalueza-Fox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221009895