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How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas

Ville N Pimenoff, Charlotte J Houldcroft

OAI: oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/327828 • DOI: 10.17863/CAM.75283

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Abstract

Analysis of viral DNA from human remains suggests that the transatlantic slave trade may have introduced new pathogens that contributed to the devastating disease outbreaks in colonial Mexico.

insight Genetics and Genomics Microbiology and Infectious Disease Ancient Viruses ancient viruses Africa paleovirology b19v HBV paleogenomics human Virus