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5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
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Ancient find rewrites 3,000 years of syphilis-like disease history
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...
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Scientists find lost form of syphilis bacteria in 5,500-year-old remains
In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the oldest evidence of these diseases by more than 3,000 years. The ancient ...
Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than ...
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Study traces deep origins of syphilis to prehistoric Americas
A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...
Researchers recovered ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia and reconstructed a genome related to Treponema pallidum. The lineage predates known syphilis strains by ~3,000 years, ...
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