Byzantine skeleton yields 800-year-old genomes from a fatal infection

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 12:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New insight has been gained into the everyday hazards of life in the late Byzantine Empire, sometime around the early 13th century, as well as the evolution of Staphylococcus saprophyticus, a common bacterial pathogen.

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