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Taking a bite out of the plague

Dental remains more than 4 centuries old harbor genetic proof of the bubonic plague.

References:

Drancourt, M. . . . and D. Raoult. 1998. Detection of 400-year-old Yersinia pestis DNA in human dental pulp: An approach to the diagnosis of ancient septicemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95(Oct. 27):12637.

Sources:

Didier Raoult
Université de las Mediteraneé
27 Boulevard Jean Moulin
13385 Marseille, Cedex 5
France

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 20, November 14, 1998, p. 316. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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