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Pre-Columbian treponemes clarify worldwide spread of treponematosis

2024-01-16

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Syphilis dramatically hit Europe at the end of the fifteen century before spreading to other continents. Yet the origin of the sudden pandemic in the Old World remains debated, in particular because the leading Columbus hypothesis of a New World origin of historical syphilis in Europe lacks paleomicrobiological confirmation. Here we screened a worldwide set of >1,700 ancient humans and identified ancient Treponem...

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Literature Corpus work: ce243025-3a70-596b-b6d8-841c280b1792
DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.15.575648

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