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How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas

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.

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Autores principales: Pimenoff, Ville N, Houldcroft, Charlotte J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8428842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34499030
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72791
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spelling pubmed-84288422021-09-13 How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas Pimenoff, Ville N Houldcroft, Charlotte J eLife Genetics and Genomics 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. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8428842/ /pubmed/34499030 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72791 Text en © 2021, Pimenoff and Houldcroft https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas
title How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas
title_full How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas
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title_short How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas
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topic Genetics and Genomics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8428842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34499030
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