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Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia
2022-01-21
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<h4>Summary</h4> Human herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), a life-long infection spread by oral contact, today infects a majority of adults globally 1 , yet no ancient HSV-1 genomes have yet been published. Phylogeographic clustering of sampled diversity into European, pan-Eurasian, and African groups 2, 3 has suggested that the virus co-diverged with anatomically modern humans migrating out of Africa 4 , although...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bc476a4a-6369-58c7-9ef2-412683473507
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.19.476912
