Kirsten I. Bos

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus.

Historical Y. pestis Genomes Reveal the European Black Death as the Source of Ancient and Modern Plague Pandemics.

Effect of X-ray irradiation on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones - Guidelines for safe X-ray imaging.

Mining Metagenomic Data Sets for Ancient DNA: Recommended Protocols for Authentication.

The Stone Age Plague and Its Persistence in Eurasia.

Salmonella enterica genomes from victims of a major sixteenth-century epidemic in Mexico.

Analysis of 3800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague.

Historic Treponema pallidum genomes from Colonial Mexico retrieved from archaeological remains.

Differential preservation of endogenous human and microbial DNA in dental calculus and dentin.

Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue.

TB's Chinese travels.

Ancient pathogen genomics as an emerging tool for infectious disease research.

Ancient genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750).

Paleomicrobiology: Diagnosis and Evolution of Ancient Pathogens.

Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes.

HOPS: automated detection and authentication of pathogen DNA in archaeological remains.

Advances in the molecular detection of tuberculosis in pre-contact Andean South America.

A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15 century Europe.

A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

Estimating molecular preservation of the intestinal microbiome via metagenomic analyses of latrine sediments from two medieval cities.

A systematic investigation of human DNA preservation in medieval skeletons.

Analysis of Genomic DNA from Medieval Plague Victims Suggests Long-Term Effect of Yersinia pestis on Human Immunity Genes.

The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect.