SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

The ability to sequence genomes from ancient biological material has provided a rich source
of information for evolutionary biology and engaged considerable public interest. Although …

EnteroBase is an integrated software environment that supports the identification of global
population structures within several bacterial genera that include pathogens. Here, we …

Recently, photoactivated sterilization, as a rapid, effective, and antibiotic-free antibacterial
method, has attracted increasing attention from researchers. Many outstanding …

Abstract The Black Death, often called the largest pandemic in human history, is
conventionally defined as the massive plague outbreak of 1346 to 1353 ce that struck the …

A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, las epidemias, plagas o pandemias, han
diezmado a las civilizaciones, y han sido causantes de grandes cambios políticos y …

Syphilis is a globally re-emerging disease, which has marked European history with a
devastating epidemic at the end of the 15 th century. Together with non-venereal treponemal …

Plague continued to afflict Europe for more than five centuries after the Black Death. Yet, by
the 17th century, the dynamics of plague had changed, leading to its slow decline in …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses necessitate the destructive sampling of archaeological
material. Currently, the cochlea, part of the osseous inner ear located inside the petrous …

Developments in techniques for identification of pathogen DNA in archaeological samples
can expand our resolution of disease detection. Our application of a non-targeted molecular …