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A Bolivian Mummy's Tooth Is Rewriting The History of Scarlet Fever

The tooth of a Bolivian mummy. (Eurac Research/Guido Valverde) Scarlet fever was probably not introduced to the Americas by ...

700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas

A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat ...
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700-year-old Bolivian mummy yields earliest strep evidence in Americas

Researchers have reconstructed the genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a 700-year-old Bolivian mummy, marking the earliest confirmed presence of the bacterium in the Americas. The strain, similar to ...
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700-year-old tooth reveals "European" bacterium was in South America before Columbus

It had been previously thought that the bacterium arrived in South America with Europeans, News.Az reports, citing ...
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700-Year-Old Mummy Reveals Bacterium That Causes Scarlet Fever in the Americas Before Europeans

Learn how the bacterium for scarlet fever was found in a pre-Colombian mummy from Bolivia, challenging the history of the ...
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700-year-old mummy's tooth reveals ancient disease that killed thousands

Before the invention of modern antibiotics, the disease was a leading cause of childhood death and disability, sometimes ...