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A molecular portrait of maternal sepsis from Byzantine Troy.
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- Ancient Antibiotics, Ancient Resistance.EcoSal Plus · 2021Review
- The Recovery, Interpretation and Use of Ancient Pathogen Genomes.Current biology : CB · 2020Review
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- Lateral Gene Transfer Shapes Diversity ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020Article
- Capturing the Resistome: a Targeted Capture Method To Reveal Antibiotic Resistance Determinants in Metagenomes.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2019Article
- Multidisciplinarity in Microbiome Research: A Challenge and Opportunity to Rethink Causation, Variability, and Scale.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2019Review
- Ancient pathogen genomics as an emerging tool for infectious disease research.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2019Review
- Bacteria From the Multi-Contaminated Tinto River Estuary (SW, Spain) Show High Multi-Resistance to Antibiotics and Point toFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Harnessing ancient genomes to study the history of human adaptation.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2017Review
- Antibiotic resistance: it's bad, but why isn't it worse?BMC biology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Pregnancy complications are poorly represented in the archeological record, despite their importance in contemporary and ancient societies. While excavating a Byzantine cemetery in Troy, we discovered calcified abscesses among a woman's remains. Scanning electron microscopy of the tissue revealed 'ghost cells', resulting from dystrophic calcification, which preserved ancient maternal, fetal and bacterial DNA of a severe infection, likely chorioamnionitis.
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