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Parasitism in Kansas in the 1800s: a glimpse to the past through the analysis of grave sediments from Meadowlark cemetery

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
During the excavations of the XIX century Meadowlark cemetery (Manhattan, Kansas, US), samples of sediments were taken from around five skeletons, and analyzed to detect intestinal parasites. No helminth eggs were found, but immunological ELISA tests for
Matthieu Le Bailly   +6 more
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Parasite remains in archaeological sites

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
Organic remains can be found in many different environments. They are the most significant source for paleoparasitological studies as well as for other paleoecological reconstruction.
Françoise Bouchet   +7 more
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Paleopathology of the commoners at Tell Amarna, Egypt, Akhenaten's capital city

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten initiated worship of a single god and established a new capital city (Tell Amarna) that was built and occupied only once from 1350-1330 BCE.
Jerome C Rose
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The History of Infectious Diseases and Medicine

open access: yesPathogens, 2022
From ancient times to the present, mankind has experienced many infectious diseases, which have mutually affected the development of society and medicine. In this paper, we review various historical and current infectious diseases in a five-period scheme
T. Sakai, Yuh Morimoto
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Response to Brinkmann et al. “Re-assembly of 19th century smallpox vaccine genomes reveals the contemporaneous use of horsepox and horsepox-related viruses in the United States”

open access: yesGenome Biology, 2020
We thank Brinkmann and colleagues for their correspondence and their further investigation into these American Civil War Era vaccination strains. Here, we summarize the difficulties and caveats of work with ancient DNA.
Ana T. Duggan   +2 more
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Proteomic profiling of archaeological human bone [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2017
Ancient protein analysis provides clues to human life and diseases from ancient times. Here, we performed shotgun proteomics of human archeological bones for the first time, using rib bones from the Hitotsubashi site (AD 1657–1683) in Tokyo, called Edo ...
Rikai Sawafuji   +7 more
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Human intestinal parasites in the past: new findings and a review

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
Almost all known human specific parasites have been found in ancient feces. A review of the paleoparasitological helminth and intestinal protozoa findings available in the literature is presented.
Marcelo Luiz Carvalho Gonçalves   +2 more
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Analysis of traditional Chinese medicine's understanding of functional movement disorder from ancient medical records

open access: yesChinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023
Functional movement disorder (FMD) is a common functional neurological disorder (FND), which is mainly manifested as subjective dyskinesia and cannot be explained by existing diseases.
LIN Yu⁃dong, FENG Bei⁃lei, WANG Gang
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Ancient diseases. The elements of palaeopathology

open access: yesMedicina e historia, 1983
LLOYD G. STEVENSON (editor), A celebration of medical history, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. vi, 228, illus., £12.75.
J. Rogers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Silica‐related diseases in the modern world

open access: yesAllergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2020
Silicosis is an ancient and potentially fatal pneumoconiosis caused by exposure to respirable crystalline silica. Silicosis is historically a disease of miners; however, failure to recognize and control the risk associated with silica exposure in ...
R. Hoy, D. Chambers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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