Brief communication: Evidence of Bartonella quintana infections in skeletons of a historical mass grave in Kassel, Germany

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 148-151

  Grumbkow, Philipp V ^a   Zipp, Anna ^a   Seidenberg, Verena ^a   Fehren Schmitz, Lars ^a,b   Kempf, Volkhard A J ^c   Groß, Uwe ^a   Hummel, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

aDNA; Bartonella quintana; Napoleon's wars; skeletons; typhoid fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SKELETON; TYPHOID FEVER; WINTER; FEMUR; HISTORY; HUMERUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLDIER; TRENCH FEVER;

BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BASE SEQUENCE; CEMETERIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMICS; FEMUR; GERMANY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALEOPATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRENCH FEVER; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 80052067546     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21551     Document Type: Article

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