Response to Brinkmann et al. “Re-assembly of 19th century smallpox vaccine genomes reveals the contemporaneous use of horsepox and horsepox-related viruses in the United States” Journal Articles

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AbstractWe thank Brinkmann and colleagues for their correspondence and their further investigation into these American Civil War Era vaccination strains. Here, we summarize the difficulties and caveats of work with ancient DNA.

authors

Duggan, Ana
Holmes, Edward C
Poinar, Hendrik

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published

publication date

December 2020

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05 Environmental Sciences (FoR)
06 Biological Sciences (FoR)
08 Information and Computing Sciences (FoR)
American Civil War (MeSH)
Bioinformatics (Science Metrix)
Genomics (MeSH)
Humans (MeSH)
Orthopoxvirus (MeSH)
Smallpox (MeSH)
Smallpox Vaccine (MeSH)
United States (MeSH)

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Genome Biology Journal