Evidence for louse-transmitted diseases in soldiers of Napoleon's Grand Army in Vilnius

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-120

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Dutour, Olivier ^b   Houhamdi, Linda ^a   Jankauskas, Rimantas ^c   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Ardagna, Yann ^b   Drancourt, Michel ^a   Signoli, Michel ^b   La, Vu Dang ^a   Macia, Yves ^b   Aboudharam, Gérard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BARTONELLA RECURRENTIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LITHUANIA; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDICULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLDIER; TOOTH; TOOTH PULP; TYPHUS;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BASE SEQUENCE; DENTAL PULP; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LICE INFESTATIONS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALEODONTOLOGY; PEDICULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRENCH FEVER; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 29744447926     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498534     Document Type: Article

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