Ancient viruses : how infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas |
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Author: | Pimenoff, Ville N1,2,3; Houldcroft, Charlotte J4 |
Organizations: |
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 2Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 3Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
4Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.1 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021100549360 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
eLife Sciences Publications,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-10-05 |
Description: |
AbstractAnalysis 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. see all
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Series: |
eLife |
ISSN: | 2050-084X |
ISSN-E: | 2050-084X |
ISSN-L: | 2050-084X |
Volume: | 10 |
Article number: | e72791 |
DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.72791 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.7554/eLife.72791 |
Type of Publication: |
A2 Review article in a scientific journal |
Field of Science: |
3141 Health care science |
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Copyright information: |
© 2021, Pimenoff and Houldcroft. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |