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Metagenomic analysis of a blood stain from the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793).

Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2020

de-Dios Toni, van Dorp Lucy, Charlier Philippe, Morfopoulou Sofia, Lizano Esther, Bon Celine, Le Bitouzé Corinne, Alvarez-Estape Marina, Marquès-Bonet Tomas, Balloux François, Lalueza-Fox Carles

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The French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) was assassinated in 1793 in his bathtub, where he was trying to find relief from the debilitating skin disease he was suffering from. At the time of his death, Marat was annotating newspapers, which got stained with his blood and were subsequently preserved by his sister. We extracted and sequenced DNA from the blood stain and also from another section of the...

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PMID: 32004756
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104209
PMCID: PMC7615110

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