Mycobacterium leprae genomes from a British medieval leprosy hospital: towards understanding an ancient epidemic

Table 1 Details of the skeletons excavated from St Mary Magdalen, Winchester

Skeleton	Leprosy-like pathology	Fold coverage (depth)	Percent coverage (>4 reads)	¹⁴C date (cal AD, 95% probability)
Sk2	Feet, cranium	14.9	92.9	1268-1283
Sk8	Limbs, cranium	20.0	96.4	1010-1160
Sk12	None	0.39	0.99	nd
Sk14	Limbs, feet, cranium (extensive)	26.6/44.8^*	98.9/98^*	955-1033
Sk27	Feet (minimal)	11.9/6.7^*	80.0/41.9^*	1020-1162^*

Details of the skeletons excavated from St Mary Magdalen, Winchester, and the whole genome sequence analysis of their associated M. leprae strains carried out at the University of Surrey and the University of Tübingen, respectively.
*presented in this study, other details were previously published in Schuenemann et al., 2013 [7].

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