The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis diagnosis using a probabilistic approach [PDF]
, 2019 Sensitivity and specificity estimates for 18 skeletal lesions were generated from modern skeletons for future paleoepidemiological analyses of tuberculosis prevalence in archaeological samples.
Boldsen, Jesper Lier +3 more
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Connecting palaeopathology and evolutionary medicine to cancer research: past and present [PDF]
, 2022 Cancer has a significant impact on morbidity and mortality worldwide, with estimates reaching 18.1 million cases in 2018 alone. This chapter reviews the contributions of evolutionary medicine and palaeopathology to oncological research and addresses how ...
Boddy, Amy M. +2 more
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Palaeoepidemiological study of the post-medieval Gloucester 13/83 Skeletal Assemblage. [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis carries out a palaeoepidemiological study examining the representation of pathological conditions from an 18th-19th Century Gloucester skeletal collection (13/83). This skeletal assemblage contains 82 individuals, including 37 burials from a non-parochial church (Southgate Congregational Church) and 45 burials from Gloucester Infirmary (GI).
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Kaposvár 61-es út 2. lelőhely Árpád-kori embertani anyagának paleopatológiai vizsgálata [PDF]
, 2015 Palaopathological investigation of an Árpádian Age series from Kaposvár road 61, Site 2. The skeletal remains of 202 individuals, 54 males, 60 females, 88 subadults and adults of undeterminable sex were analysed in an Árpádian Age series from Kaposvár
Bernert, Zsolt +5 more
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Tracing zoonotic parasite infections throughout human evolution [PDF]
, 2019 Parasites are useful pathogens to explore human-animal interactions because they have diverse life cycles that often rely on both as hosts. Moreover, some species are not host specific and are transmitted between animals and humans.
Ledger, Marissa, Mitchell, Piers
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Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease: a method for recording prevalence from sites with differing preservation [PDF]
, 2019 Objectives Inflammatory periosteal reaction (IPR) on the visceral surfaces of the ribs has been used in bioarchaeology as an indicator of lower respiratory tract disease.
Antoine, Daniel +2 more
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Considerations on Palaeodemography and Death in the British Community of Bagni di Lucca (19th -20th Centuries) [PDF]
, 2013 The English community of Bagni di Lucca obtained permission by Carlo Ludovico di Borbone, Duke of Lucca, to build and organize in 1842 an autonomous burial ground. This British cemetery operated until the 1930s, with an amount of 137 burials.
FORNACIARI, GINO, GAETA, RAFFAELE
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Sex-differential mortality during the 1679 plague epidemic in Granada (Spain) [PDF]
, 2020 The majority of studies on plague epidemics have found no sex differences in mortality. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the mortality differed between sexes during the 1679 plague epidemic in Granada (Southern Spain), one of the ...
Jiménez-Brobeil, Sylvia A.
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Vertebral Pathologies and Related Activity Patterns in two Mediaeval Populations from Spain [PDF]
, 2012 The main aim of this study was to explore the usefulness of several types of vertebral pathology as activity markers in osteological populations. A total of 2165 vertebrae from 124 individuals were studied.
Ihab Al Oumaoui +3 more
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Paléoparasitologie et immunologie. L’exemple d’Entamoeba histolytica [PDF]
, 2008 Afin de développer l’éventail des parasitoses mises en évidence en contextes archéologiques, et compléter les référentiels paléoparasitologiques, l’immunologie a été employée pour détecter la présence d’antigènes de l’amibe pathogène de l’homme Entamoeba
Bouchet, Françoise +1 more
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