“The well-authenticated detection of Haemophilus influenzae in an early medieval child promises that it will be detectable in more cases in history, and potentially prehistory,” he says.

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The first bacterial genome sequence, that of Haemophilus influenzae, was published in 1995 and took 1 year to complete, whereas draft bacterial genomes can now be produced in a matter of days.