Byzantine skeleton yields 800-year-old genomes from a fatal infection

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Writing this week in the journal eLife, a team led by Caitlin Pepperell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and McMaster University's Hendrik Poinar provide insight into the everyday hazards of life in the late Byzantine Empire, sometime around the early 13th century, as well as the evolution of Staphylococcus saprophyticus, a common bacterial pathogen.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://ift.tt/2jqDSge