Understanding how food-borne and louse-borne disease coexisted during one of the greatest breakdowns in war history may also inform us how to address disease outbreaks in modern-day humanitarian ...

We present the complete genomes of two human pathogens, Bartonella quintana (1,581,384 bp) and Bartonella henselae (1,931,047 bp). The two pathogens maintain several similarities in being transmitted ...

Discovery of unsuspected dangers -- How arthropods came to transmit human diseases -- From speculation to certainity: the incrimination of the disease carriers -- Elucidation of particular diseases -- ...

In the words of Barbieri’s team, “A reasonable scenario for the deaths of these soldiers would be a combination of fatigue, cold, and several diseases, including paratyphoid fever and louse-borne ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analysed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...