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Emma Loftus

University of JohannesburgORCID 0000-0003-4442-8511Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintAug 28, 2026

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The Genomic Landscape of Post-Black Death Epidemics in Northern Europe and the Caucasus

Cameron Robert Ferguson, Åshild J. Vågene‬, Marcel Keller…·Lucy van Dorp

Twenty-three new Yersinia pestis genomes from Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Iceland and Armenia extend the Second Plague Pandemic phylogeny, with the first Icelandic plague genome and eastward-spreading pestis secunda strains.

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