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Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis

www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/pmc/articles/PMC4550673/

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  • pre-contact tuberculosis in the New World

  • three 1,000-year-old mycobacterial genomes from Peruvian human skeletons

  • most closely related to those adapted to seals and sea lions.

  • Holocene dispersal of the disease

  • sea mammals as having played a role in transmitting the disease to humans across the ocean.

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