Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae), was very
common in Europe till the 16th century. Here, we perform an ancient DNA study on medieval …

Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi C causes enteric (paratyphoid) fever in humans. Its
presentation can range from asymptomatic infections of the blood stream to gastrointestinal …

We report genome-wide data from 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14 th century,
obtained following a salvage excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt …

Malaria-causing protozoa of the genus Plasmodium have exerted one of the strongest
selective pressures on the human genome, and resistance alleles provide biomolecular …

Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient
biomolecules. Here we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative …

Background Although tuberculosis accounts for the highest mortality from a bacterial
infection on a global scale, questions persist regarding its origin. One hypothesis based on …

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 …

The last century has witnessed progress in the study of ancient infectious disease from
purely medical descriptions of past ailments to dynamic interpretations of past population …

Wastewater treatment plants are considered as hotspots of emerging antimicrobial genes
and mobile genetic elements. We used a shotgun metagenomic approach to examine the …

The forced relocation of several thousand Africans during Mexico's historic period has so far
been documented mostly through archival sources, which provide only sparse detail on their …