Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague

R Barbieri, M Signoli, D Chevé… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

Ancient pathogen genomics as an emerging tool for infectious disease research

MA Spyrou, KI Bos, A Herbig, J Krause - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Over the past decade, a genomics revolution, made possible through the development of
high-throughput sequencing, has triggered considerable progress in the study of ancient …

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

MA Spyrou, L Musralina, GA Gnecchi Ruscone… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long …

The EnteroBase user's guide, with case studies on Salmonella transmissions, Yersinia pestis phylogeny, and Escherichia core genomic diversity

Z Zhou, NF Alikhan, K Mohamed, Y Fan… - Genome …, 2020‏ - genome.cshlp.org
EnteroBase is an integrated software environment that supports the identification of global
population structures within several bacterial genera that include pathogens. Here, we …

The fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire

K Harper - The Fate of Rome, 2017‏ - degruyter.com
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence and spread of basal lineages of Yersinia pestis during the Neolithic decline

N Rascovan, KG Sjögren, K Kristiansen, R Nielsen… - Cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
Summary Between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, many Neolithic societies declined
throughout western Eurasia due to a combination of factors that are still largely debated …

Stone Age Yersinia pestis genomes shed light on the early evolution, diversity, and ecology of plague

A Andrades Valtueña, GU Neumann… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
The bacterial pathogen Yersinia pestis gave rise to devastating outbreaks throughout
human history, and ancient DNA evidence has shown it afflicted human populations as far …

The Justinianic Plague: an inconsequential pandemic?

L Mordechai, M Eisenberg, TP Newfield… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Existing mortality estimates assert that the Justinianic Plague (circa 541 to 750 CE) caused
tens of millions of deaths throughout the Mediterranean world and Europe, hel** to end …

Analysis of 3800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague

MA Spyrou, RI Tukhbatova, CC Wang… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
The origin of Yersinia pestis and the early stages of its evolution are fundamental subjects of
investigation given its high virulence and mortality that resulted from past pandemics …

Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750)

M Keller, MA Spyrou, CL Scheib, GU Neumann… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
The first historically documented pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis began as the
Justinianic Plague in 541 within the Roman Empire and continued as the so-called First …