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Nature 412, 847 (30 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35091226
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Earliest malaria DNA found in Roman baby graveyard
Alison Abbott
Malaria experts are helping archaeologists to work out what caused the deaths of 47 babies whose bodies have been unearthed together in a fifth-century cemetery outside Rome.The experts think the tiny skeletons — including the bones of 22 miscarried fetuses — may have been victims of Plasmodium falciparum, an extremely virulent form of the organism that causes malaria.
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