• Current biology : CB · Feb 2017

    Historical Article

    Viral Evolution: Mummy Virus Challenges Presumed History of Smallpox.

    • Joel O Wertheim.
    • Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: jwertheim@ucsd.edu.
    • Curr. Biol. 2017 Feb 6; 27 (3): R119-R120.

    AbstractDespite evidence of smallpox in antiquity, a new study of a 350 year-old Lithuanian child mummy suggests that the global viral genetic diversity circulating during the 20th century was only around 200 years old.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Free full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…