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Survivorship and the second epidemiological transition in industrial‐era London

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 181, Issue 4, Page 646-652, August 2023., 2023
Survivorship curves with 95% confidence intervals for pre‐industrial versus industrial London. Abstract Objectives The second epidemiological transition describes a shift in predominant causes of death from infectious to degenerative (non‐communicable) diseases associated with the demographic transition from high to low levels of mortality and ...
Samantha L. Yaussy, Sharon N. DeWitte, Gail Hughes‐Morey   +2 more
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Studies on protozoa in ancient remains - A Review

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013
Paleoparasitological research has made important contributions to the understanding of parasite evolution and ecology. Although parasitic protozoa exhibit a worldwide distribution, recovering these organisms from an archaeological context is still ...
Liesbeth Frías, Daniela Leles, Adauto Araújo   +2 more
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Zoonoses and their traces in ancient genomes – a possible indicator for ancient life-style changes?

Journal of Medical Science, 2020
Humans are constantly exposed to health risks inherent to the environment in which they live, thereby including non-human fauna. Zoonoses are infectious diseases caused by agents such as bacteria, parasites, or viruses being transmitted to humans from ...
Dawid Leciej, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Olaf Thalmann   +2 more
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Pathological and normal variability of foot bones in osteological collections from Catalonia (Spain) and Lazio (Italy)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 215-228, January/February 2022., 2022
Abstract A wide number of factors can affect the structure of the bones in the foot. In bioarchaeology, few studies about foot anomalies include population comparisons and changes across time. We aimed to identify normal and pathological variability that affected the foot in the recent history of West Mediterranean populations. Thus, we analyzed change
Eduardo Saldías, Albert Isidro, Cristina Martínez‐Labarga, Alfredo Coppa, Mauro Rubini, Bernardo Vila, Assumpció Malgosa   +6 more
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Maxillary abnormality in the medieval Blessed friar Egidio from Laurenzana (Basilicata, southern Italy)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 267-275, January/February 2022., 2022
Abstract Blessed Egidio was a revered Catholic friar who lived in Basilicata (southern Italy) between the 15th and 16th centuries A.D. His natural mummy is preserved in the Mother Church of Laurenzana, the village where he lived. During the recent restoration and conservation of the relic, palaeopathological analysis was carried out.
Ruggero D'Anastasio, Jacopo Cilli, Joan Viciano, Luigi Capasso   +3 more
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Tuberculosis in medieval and early modern Denmark: A paleoepidemiological perspective [PDF]

International Journal of Paleopathology, 2019
Millions of people worldwide have sickened and died from tuberculosis in recent centuries. Yet for most of human existence, the impact of tuberculosis on society is largely unknown. It is, indeed, unknowable without methods suitable for estimating disease prevalence in skeletal samples.
Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, George R. Milner, Hans Jørn Kolmos, Jesper Lier Boldsen   +3 more
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Parasitism in Kansas in the 1800s: a glimpse to the past through the analysis of grave sediments from Meadowlark cemetery

Memorias 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, Marcelo LC Gonçalves, Christine Lefèvre, Donna C Roper, Jeremy W Pye, Adauto Araujo, Françoise Bouchet   +6 more
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Possible influence of the ENSO phenomenon on the pathoecology of diphyllobothriasis and anisakiasis in ancient Chinchorro populations

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010
Current clinical data show a clear relationship between the zoonosis rates of Diphyllobothrium pacificum and Anisakis caused by the El Niño Southern Oscillations (ENSO) phenomenon along the Chilean coast.
Bernardo T Arriaza, Karl J Reinhard, Adauto G Araújo, Nancy C Orellana, Vivien G Standen   +4 more
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Paleoparasitology of Chagas disease: a review

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2009
One hundred years since the discovery of Chagas disease associated with Trypanosoma cruzi infection, growing attention has focused on understanding the evolution in parasite-human host interaction.
Adauto Araújo, Ana Maria Jansen, Karl Reinhard, Luiz Fernando Ferreira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recovery of a medieval Brucella melitensis genome using shotgun metagenomics [PDF]

, 2014
Shotgun metagenomics provides a powerful assumption-free approach to the recovery of pathogen genomes from contemporary and historical material. We sequenced the metagenome of a calcified nodule from the skeleton of a 14th-century middle-aged male ...
Milanese, Marco, Pallen, Mark J., Gemma L. Kay, Mark J. Pallen, Bandiera, P., Giuffra, V., Kay, LG., Valentina Giuffra, Kay, Gemma L, Bramanti, Barbara, Barbara Bramanti, Raffaella Bianucci, Sergeant, Martin J, Pallen, MJ., Martin J. Sergeant, Sergeant, Martin J., Milanese, M., Bandiera, Pasquale, Giuffra, Valentina, Sergeant, MJ., Bramanti, B., Kay, Gemma L., Bianucci, Raffealla, Pasquale Bandiera, Marco Milanese, Bianucci, Raffaella   +25 more
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