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Paleopathological and biomolecular study of tuberculosis in a medieval skeletal collection from England

✍ Scribed by S. Mays; G.M. Taylor; A.J. Legge; D.B. Young; G. Turner-Walker

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
684 KB
Volume
114
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-9483

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Abstract

Nine human skeletons of medieval date from a rural English burial site show signs of skeletal tuberculosis. They were subject to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays aimed at detecting traces of DNA from infecting mycobacteria, with the purpose both of confirming the paleopathological diagnosis of tuberculosis and determining in individual cases whether disease was due to M. tuberculosis or M. bovis. In all nine cases, evidence for M. tuberculosis complex DNA was found, and in all instances it appeared that disease was due to M. tuberculosis rather than M. bovis. The significance of the findings for understanding tuberculous infection in rural agrarian communities in medieval England is discussed. Am J Phys Anthropol 114:298–311, 2001. Β© 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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