Historic Treponema pallidum genomes from Colonial Mexico retrieved from archaeological remains.

• Main Authors: Verena J Schuenemann (Author), Aditya Kumar Lankapalli (Author), Rodrigo Barquera (Author), Elizabeth A Nelson (Author), Diana Iraíz Hernández (Author), Víctor Acuña Alonzo (Author), Kirsten I Bos (Author), Lourdes Márquez Morfín (Author), Alexander Herbig (Author), Johannes Krause (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Treponema pallidum infections occur worldwide causing, among other diseases, syphilis and yaws. In particular sexually transmitted syphilis is regarded as a re-emerging infectious disease with millions of new infections annually. Here we present three historic T. pallidum genomes (two from T. pallid...