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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7717
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- Warwick Medical School
- UK Wellcome Trust [0516/Z/97/Z]
- UK MRC from the UK Medical Research Council
- BBSRC [BB/L020319/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G0901717, MR/J014370/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L020319/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/J014370/1, MR/M501621/1, G0901717] Funding Source: researchfish
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Tuberculosis (TB) was once a major killer in Europe, but it is unclear how the strains and patterns of infection at 'peak TB' relate to what we see today. Here we describe 14 genome sequences of M. tuberculosis, representing 12 distinct genotypes, obtained from human remains from eighteenth-century Hungary using metagenomics. All our historic genotypes belong to M. tuberculosis Lineage 4. Bayesian phylogenetic dating, based on samples with well-documented dates, places the most recent common ancestor of this lineage in the late Roman period. We find that most bodies yielded more than one M. tuberculosis genotype and we document an intimate epidemiological link between infections in two long-dead individuals. Our results suggest that metagenomic approaches usefully inform detection and characterization of historical and contemporary infections.
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