| Autor: |
Arriaza BT; Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89154-5012, USA., Salo W, Aufderheide AC, Holcomb TA |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
American journal of physical anthropology [Am J Phys Anthropol] 1995 Sep; Vol. 98 (1), pp. 37-45. |
| DOI: |
10.1002/ajpa.1330980104 |
| Abstrakt: |
Analysis of 483 skeletons from Arica (Chile) and review of mummy dissection records demonstrates an overall 1% prevalence rate for tuberculosis between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 1500. Tuberculosis cases cluster in the period A.D. 500-1000 which correlates with fully agropastoral societies. Considering only these agropastoral societies, about 2% of their members show tuberculosis lesions. A segment of DNA unique to Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified in an extract from the vertebral lesion of a 12-year-old girl with Pott's disease from about A.D. 1000, establishing the pre-Columbian presence of tuberculosis with the most specific evidence currently available. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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