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The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia and the emergence of zoonotic diseases

2023-10-06

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<h4>Summary</h4> Infectious diseases have had devastating impacts on human populations throughout history, but important questions about their origins and past dynamics remain 1 . To create the first archaeogenetic-based spatiotemporal map of human pathogens, we screened shotgun sequencing data from 1,313 ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history. We demonstrate the widespread presence of ancient...

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Literature Corpus work: 1450a87b-dad8-5d27-8d1a-c4a4cdad4d22
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.06.561165

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