Ancient viral genomes reveal introduction of HBV and B19V into Mexico during the transatlantic slave trade

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> After the European colonization of the Americas there was a dramatic population collapse of the Indigenous inhabitants caused in part by the introduction of new pathogens. Although there is much speculation on the etiology of the Colonial epidemics, direct evidence for the presence of specific viruses during the Colonial era is lacking. To uncover the diversity of viral pathogens during this per...

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• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis B virus
• Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
• Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies
• Poxvirus research and outbreaks
• Vibrio bacteria research studies
• Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
• Zoonotic diseases and public health

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Literature Corpus work

d7655aef-e3cc-57e4-8eee-521ff746958c

DOI

10.1101/2020.06.05.137083