Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence

Authors: Maria Lopopolo, Charlotte Avanzi, Sebastian Duchene, Pierre Luisi, Alida de Flamingh, Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Gaetan Tressieres, Sarah Neumeyer, Frédéric Lemoine, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Miren Iraeta-Orbegozo, Jerome S. Cybulski, Joycelynn Mitchell, Vilma T. Marks, Linda B. Adams, John Lindo, Michael DeGiorgio, Nery Ortiz, Carlos Wiens, Juri Hiebert, Alexandro Bonifaz, Griselda Montes de Oca, Vanessa Paredes-Solis, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, José G. Pereira Brunelli, Mary Jackson, John S. Spencer, Claudio G. Salgado, Xiang-Yang Han, Camron M. Pearce, Alaine K. Warren, Patricia S. Rosa, Amanda J. de Finardi, Andréa de F. F. Belone, Cynthia Ferreira, Philip N. Suffys, Amanda N. Brum Fontes, Sidra E. G. Vasconcellos, Roxane Schaub, Pierre Couppié, Kinan Drak Alsibai, Rigoberto Hernández-Castro, Mayra Silva Miranda, Iris Estrada-Garcia, Fermin Jurado-Santacruz, Ludovic Orlando, Hannes Schroeder, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Mariano Del Papa, Ramanuj Lahiri, Ripan S. Malhi, Simon Rasmussen, Nicolás Rascovan

Published: 2025-05-29

DOI: 10.1126/science.adu7144

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Abstract

Leprosy, primarily caused by