ArticleiScience2021
Mass burial genomics reveals outbreak of enteric paratyphoid fever in the Late Medieval trade city Lübeck.
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- Insights into infectious diseases through ancient pathogen genomics.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- The outcasts, the sick, and the undead: atypical burials of the late medieval to modern greater Poland.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Admixture as a source for HLA variation in Neolithic European farming communities.Genome biology · 2025Article
- Neolithic Yersinia pestis infections in humans and a dog.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Historic and Prehistoric Epidemics: An Overview of Sources Available for the Study of Ancient Pathogens.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Ancient DNA Study in Medieval Europeans Shows an Association Between HLA-DRB1*03 and Paratyphoid Fever.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Medieval Europe was repeatedly affected by outbreaks of infectious diseases, some of which reached epidemic proportions. A Late Medieval mass burial next to the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital in Lübeck (present-day Germany) contained the skeletal remains of more than 800 individuals who had presumably died from infectious disease. From 92 individuals, we screened the ancient DNA extracts for the presence of pathogens to determine the cause of death. Metagenomic analysis revealed evidence of
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