Teeth from 13 Grande Armée soldiers in a Vilnius grave give first genetic proof that infections, with famine and cold, helped cause the loss of 300,000 men during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia.

However, new research by scientists working at the Institut Pasteur’s Microbial Paleogenomics Unit finds two previously undetected pathogens may have led to the beginning of the end of the Napoleonic ...

The findings fit with historical descriptions of the symptoms experienced by soldiers in Napoleon’s army, such as fever and ...

DNA from Napoleonic soldiers’ teeth uncovered two fever-causing bacteria that may have worsened the army’s fatal retreat from Russia.

PhD Defense: Detectie van pathogenen door middel van liquid biopsy shotgun sequencing ...