Genotyping Yersinia pestis in Historical Plague: Evidence for Long-Term Persistence of Y. pestis in Europe from the 14th to the 17th Century

Lisa Seifert; Ingrid Wiechmann; Michaela Harbeck; Astrid Thomas; Gisela Grupe; Michaela Projahn; Holger C. Scholz; Julia M. Riehm

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145194

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Genotyping Yersinia pestis in Historical Plague: Evidence for Long-Term Persistence of Y. pestis in Europe from the 14^th to the 17^th Century

Lisa Seifert,

Affiliation Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Ingrid Wiechmann,

Affiliation Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Michaela Harbeck,

Affiliation State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich, Germany
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Astrid Thomas,

Current address: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
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Gisela Grupe,

Affiliation Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Michaela Projahn,

Current address: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
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Holger C. Scholz ,

* E-mail: Holger1scholz@bundeswehr.org

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
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Julia M. Riehm

Current address: Central Institute of the Bundeswehr Medical Service Munich, Germany

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
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Genotyping Yersinia pestis in Historical Plague: Evidence for Long-Term Persistence of Y. pestis in Europe from the 14^th to the 17^th Century

Lisa Seifert,
Ingrid Wiechmann,
Michaela Harbeck,
Astrid Thomas,
Gisela Grupe,
Michaela Projahn,
Holger C. Scholz,
Julia M. Riehm

Published: January 13, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145194

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Correction to Fig. 3, "Global Phylogeny for Y. pestis"

Posted by mhgreen0 on 26 Mar 2016 at 18:13 GMT

Thank you for this very valuable study. May I point out what seems to be an error in the last sentence of the caption to fig. 3, "Global Phylogeny for Y. pestis." The sentence reads "Samples from this study (Mp and B) and ES1 have the derived state of SNP s12, which maps them closer to N07 at the beginning of branch 1." Instead of "derived," the word should, I believe, be "ancestral." I have already notified Dr. Scholz via email.

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Genotyping Yersinia pestis in Historical Plague: Evidence for Long-Term Persistence of Y. pestis in Europe from the 14^th to the 17^th Century

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Correction to Fig. 3, "Global Phylogeny for Y. pestis"

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