What Disease Killed This 700-year-old Skeleton?

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - 11:50 in Biology & Nature

Using shotgun metagenomics to sequence DNA from a calcified nodule in the pelvic region of a 700-year-old middle-aged male skeleton excavated from the settlement of Geridu in Sardinia, European researchers have recovered a genome of the bacterium Brucella melitensis. read more

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