| ancient pathogens in museal dry bone specimens: analysis of paleocytology and adna. | bone samples investigated in this study derive from the pathologic-anatomical collection of the natural history museum of vienna. in order to explore the survival of treponemes and treponemal ancient dna in museal dry bone specimens, we analyzed three individuals known to have been infected with treponema pallidum pallidum. no reproducible evidence of surviving pathogen's ancient dna (adna) was obtained, despite the highly sensitive extraction and amplification techniques (tpp15 and arp). additi ... | 2015 | 25994097 |