An outbreak of relapsing fever unmasked by microbial paleoserology, 16th century, France.
Hamadou Oumarou HamaRémi BarbieriJacqueline GuirouThomas ChenalAurélie MayerYann ArdagnaMichel SignoliGérard AboudharamDidier RaoultMichel DrancourtPublished in: American journal of physical anthropology (2020)
Paleoserology unmasked an outbreak of relapsing B. recurrentis fever in one 16th - 17th century military garrison, missed by real-time PCR. Paleoserology offers a new tool for investigating past epidemics, in complement to DNA sequence-based approaches.