Reply to Alfani: Reconstructing past plague ecology to understand human history
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F23%3A00133586" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/23:00133586 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2300760120" target="_blank" >https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2300760120</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300760120" target="_blank" >10.1073/pnas.2300760120</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reply to Alfani: Reconstructing past plague ecology to understand human history
Original language description
Alfani (1) provides important reflections on our recent work, which argues against long-term wildlife-based plague reservoirs in historical Europe (2). Without natural reservoirs in Europe during the past 2,000 y, the plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis) must have repeatedly spilled over from local medium-term reservoirs (3) or was introduced repeatedly from outside Europe by rodents (e.g., rats) and their ectoparasites (e.g., fleas) by infected people or contaminated goods (Fig. 1). While recognized for the Third Pandemic in Europe (4), the hypothesis of several reintroductions of Y. pestis into Europe remains under debate for late-antique and medieval outbreaks. Two hypotheses of plague continuity in Europe have been proposed (5): local persistence in reservoirs and external reimportation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN
0027-8424
e-ISSN
1091-6490
Volume of the periodical
120
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
1-2
UT code for WoS article
001192000600009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85149999987