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    Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes from the mediaeval sites of Chichester and Raunds in England

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    Publication date
    2019-12
    Author
    Kerudin, A.
    Müller, R.
    Buckberry, Jo
    Knüsel, C.J.
    Brown, T.A.
    Keyword
    Ancient DNA
    Leprosy
    Mediaeval England
    Mycobacterium leprae
    Palaeopathology
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    © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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    Abstract
    We examined six skeletons from mediaeval contexts from two sites in England for the presence of Mycobacterium leprae DNA, each of the skeletons displaying osteological indicators of leprosy. Polymerase chain reactions directed at the species-specific RLEP multicopy sequence produced positive results with three skeletons, these being among those with the clearest osteological signs of leprosy. Following in-solution hybridization capture, sufficient sequence reads were obtained to cover >70% of the M. leprae genomes from these three skeletons, with a mean read depth of 4–10×. Two skeletons from a mediaeval hospital in Chichester, UK, dating to the 14th–17th centuries AD, contained M. leprae strains of subtype 3I, which has previously been reported in mediaeval England. The third skeleton, from a churchyard cemetery at Raunds Furnells, UK, dating to the 10th to mid-12th centuries AD, carried subtype 3K, which has been recorded at 7th–13th century AD sites in Turkey, Hungary and Denmark, but not previously in Britain. We suggest that travellers to the Holy Land might have been responsible for the transmission of subtype 3K from southeast Europe to Britain.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17521
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    Kerudin A, Müller R, Buckberry J et al (2019) Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes from the mediaeval sites of Chichester and Raunds in England. Journal of Archaeological Science. 112: 105035.
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    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.105035
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