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Comment
. 2019 Apr 16;116(16):7622-7623.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902274116. Epub 2019 Apr 4.

Reply to Barbieri et al.: Out of the Land of Darkness: Plague on the fur trade routes

Barbara Bramanti  1   2 , Amine Namouchi  1 , Boris V Schmid  3 , Katharine R Dean  3 , Nils Chr Stenseth  1
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Comment

Reply to Barbieri et al.: Out of the Land of Darkness: Plague on the fur trade routes

Barbara Bramanti et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Schematic representation of multiple waves of introductions of plague involving different land and maritime trade routes. The two arrows reflect the involvement of the fur trade routes in the dissemination of Yersinia pestis into Europe from the Land of Darkness. The blue line represents the maritime routes. The dark line represents the Silk Road.
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Comment on

  • Integrative approach using Yersinia pestis genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period.
    Namouchi A, Guellil M, Kersten O, Hänsch S, Ottoni C, Schmid BV, Pacciani E, Quaglia L, Vermunt M, Bauer EL, Derrick M, Jensen AØ, Kacki S, Cohn SK Jr, Stenseth NC, Bramanti B. Namouchi A, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Dec 11;115(50):E11790-E11797. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812865115. Epub 2018 Nov 26. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 30478041 Free PMC article.
  • Plague, camels, and lice.
    Barbieri R, Drancourt M, Raoult D. Barbieri R, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Apr 16;116(16):7620-7621. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1901145116. Epub 2019 Apr 4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 30948636 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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