Syphilis at the crossroad of phylogenetics and paleopathology.

• Main Authors: Fernando Lucas de Melo (Author), Joana Carvalho Moreira de Mello (Author), Ana Maria Fraga (Author), Kelly Nunes (Author), Sabine Eggers (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The origin of syphilis is still controversial. Different research avenues explore its fascinating history. Here we employed a new integrative approach, where paleopathology and molecular analyses are combined. As an exercise to test the validity of this approach we examined different hypotheses on t...