Ancient skeletal evidence for leprosy in India (2000 B.C.)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Robbins, Gwen ^a   Mushrif Tripathy, V ^b   Misra, V N ^b   Mohanty, R K ^b   Shinde, V S ^b   Gray, Kelsey M ^a   Schug, Malcolm D ^c  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; BONE INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; JOINT DEGENERATION; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PERIOSTITIS; POSTHUMOUS CARE; ARCHEOLOGY; BONE; HISTORY; LEPROSY; MANDIBLE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKULL;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPROSY; MANDIBLE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKULL;

EID: 66349118722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005669     Document Type: Article

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