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Pimenoff, V. N., & Houldcroft, C. J. (2021). How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas. ELife, 10. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.72791

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
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
Publish Date: 2021-10-05
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Abstract

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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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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