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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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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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author | Pimenoff, Ville N Houldcroft, Charlotte J |
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description | 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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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. |
spellingShingle | Genetics and Genomics Pimenoff, Ville N Houldcroft, Charlotte J 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 |
title_fullStr | How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas |
title_full_unstemmed | How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas |
title_short | How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas |
title_sort | how infectious diseases arrived in the colonial americas |
topic | Genetics and Genomics |
url | 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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