Syphilis at the crossroad of phylogenetics and paleopathology.

• Principais autores: Fernando Lucas de Melo (Autor), Joana Carvalho Moreira de Mello (Autor), Ana Maria Fraga (Autor), Kelly Nunes (Autor), Sabine Eggers (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: 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...