Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541–543 AD: a genomic analysis - 1-s2.0-S1473309913703232-main
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David M Wagner*, Jennifer Klunk*, Michaela Harbeck, Alison Devault, Nicholas Waglechner, Jason W Sahl, Jacob Enk, Dawn N Birdsell, Melanie Kuch, Candice Lumibao, Debi Poinar, Talima Pearson, Mathieu Fourment, Brian Golding, Julia M Riehm, David J D Earn, Sharon DeWitte, Jean-Marie Rouillard, Gisela Grupe, Ingrid Wiechmann, James B Bliska, Paul S Keim, Holger C Scholz, Edward C Holmes, Hendrik Poinar
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Yersinia pestis and the plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis.
BACKGROUND Yersinia pestis has caused at least three human plague pandemics. The second (Black Death, 14-17th centuries) and third (19-20th centuries) have been genetically characterised, but there is only a limited understanding of the first pandemic, the Plague of Justinian (6-8th centuries). To address this gap, we sequenced and analysed draft genomes of Y pestis obtained from two individual...
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