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Paratyphoid Fever and Relapsing Fever in 1812 Napoleon’s Devastated Army

2025-07-16

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<h4>Summary</h4> During Napoleon’s retreat from Russia in 1812 1 , countless soldiers of the French army succumbed to infectious diseases, but the responsible pathogen or pathogens remain debated 2–5 . We recovered and sequenced ancient DNA from the teeth of 13 soldiers who, based on historical records, likely died from infectious diseases, aiming to identify the pathogens responsible for their deaths 6 . Our...

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Literature Corpus work: 9f08be16-6dc5-50b7-9138-d2151ae15fa5
DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.12.664512

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