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Ancient DNA of <i>Rickettsia felis</i> and <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> implicated in the death of a hunter-gatherer boy from South Africa, 2,000 years ago

2020-07-23

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The Stone Age record of South Africa provides some of the earliest evidence for the biological and cultural origins of Homo sapiens . While there is extensive genomic evidence for the selection of polymorphisms in response to pathogen-pressure in sub-Saharan Africa, there is insufficient evidence for ancient human-pathogen interactions in the region. Here, we analysed shotgun metagenome libraries derived from the...

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9c71969b-13b6-53a4-8bee-9c002c3896aa
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10.1101/2020.07.23.217141
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