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Detecting Bacterial Species from Next Generation Sequencing Data Derived from Ancient Human Skeletal Samples

, 2021
This study aims to isolate and identify bacteria and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) found alongside Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTCB) in silico. MTCB is a causative agent of tuberculosis (TB).
Owens, Ariel, Tseng, Tsai-Tien, McGrath, Daisy   +2 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
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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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Paleoparasitological remains revealed by seven historic contexts from "Place d'Armes", Namur, Belgium

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
Human occupation for several centuries was recorded in the archaeological layers of "Place d'Armes", Namur, Belgium. Preventive archaeological excavations were carried out between 1996/1997 and seven historical strata were observed, from Gallo-Roman ...
Gino Chaves da Rocha, Stephanie Harter- Lailheugue, Matthieu Le Bailly, Adauto Araújo, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Nicolau Maués da Serra-Freire, Françoise Bouchet   +6 more
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Prehistoric tuberculosis in America: adding comments to a literature review

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
Tuberculosis is a prehistoric American human disease. This paper reviews the literature and discusses hypotheses for origins and epidemiological patterns of prehistoric tuberculosis.
Jordi Gómez i Prat, Sheila MF Mendonça de Souza   +1 more
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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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Gauging differential health among the sexes at Windover (8Br246) using the Western Hemisphere Health Index

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
Assessment of intrapopulation human health provides information concerning social structure, division of labor, and lifestyle. Differential health among the sexes can provide clues to social roles, resource acquisition and status within prehistoric ...
Rachel K Wentz, Bryan Tucker, John Krigbaum, Glen H Doran   +3 more
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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
Uribelarrea David, Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel, María del Sol Martínez-Ávila, Musiba, C., Musiba Charles, Pickering, T.R., Pickering, Travis Rayne, Agness, Gidna, Gail M Ashley, Musiba, Charles, Ashley, Gail M., Barboni Doris, Audax Mabulla, Bunn, Henry T., Pickering Travis Rayne, Mabulla, Audax, Gonzalo Trancho, David Uribelarrea, Diez-Martín, Fernando, Doris Barboni, Travis Rayne Pickering, Carmen Arriaza, Ashley, G.M., Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel, Gidna, Agness, Enrique Baquedano, Trancho Gayo, Gonzalo, Barboni, Doris, Uribelarrea, David, Bunn, Henry T, Arriaza, Carmen, Santonja Manuel, Bunn Henry T., Barba, Rebeca, Barba Rebeca, Arriaza Carmen, Baquedano Enrique, Barboni, D., Gidna Agness, Santonja, Manuel, Díez Martín, Fernando, Yravedra, José, José Yravedra, Yravedra José, Trancho Gonzalo, Henry T Bunn, Ashley, Gail M, Manuel Santonja, Martínez-Ávila María del Sol, Uribelarrea Del Val, David, Fernando Diez-Martín, Agness Gidna, Ashley Gail M., Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Trancho, Gonzalo, Baquedano, Enrique, Domínguez-Rodrigo Manuel, Diez-Martín Fernando, Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, José, Arriaza, María del Carmen, Mabulla Audax, Del Sol Martinez-Avila, Maria, Charles Musiba, Rebeca Barba, Martínez-Ávila, María del Sol   +64 more
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The intersectional effects of sex and socioeconomic status on risk of mortality in industrializing England

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 3, November 2024.
Abstract Objectives Intersectionality posits that multiple levels of marginalization interact to produce patterns of frailty and mortality, both today and in the past. To investigate how mortality during industrialization was selective with respect to sex and socioeconomic status (SES), this study analyzes data from four burial grounds dated to the ...
Samantha L. Yaussy
wiley   +1 more source