DNA examination of ancient dental pulp incriminates typhoid fever as a probable cause of the Plague of Athens

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 206-214

  Papagrigorakis, Manolis J ^a   Yapijakis, Christos ^b   Synodinos, Philippos N ^a   Baziotopoulou Valavani, Effie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Third Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities   (Greece)

Author keywords

'Suicide' PCR; Ancient DNA; Plague of Athens; Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAGUE; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; TOOTH PULP; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

DENTAL PULP; DNA, BACTERIAL; GREECE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 33646092772     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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