Abstract:
:Historical and anthropological data suggest that skeletons excavated from an 11th to 15th century mass grave in Bondy, France, may be those of victims of the Great Plague. Using high-throughput real-time PCR investigation of the dental pulp collected from 14 teeth from five such skeletons, we detected Bartonella quintana DNA in three individuals and Yersinia pestis DNA in two individuals. DNA from five other deadly pathogens was not found. Suicide PCR genotyping confirmed Y. pestis DNA belonging to the Orientalis biotype. One individual had co-infection. These data suggest a plague epidemic in a population already infected by the body louse-transmitted B. quintana or a body louse-driven transmission of the plague that drove a medieval epidemic in inland Europe.
journal_name
Am J Phys Anthropoljournal_title
American journal of physical anthropologyauthors
Tran TN,Forestier CL,Drancourt M,Raoult D,Aboudharam Gdoi
10.1002/ajpa.21510subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-07-01 00:00:00pages
489-94issue
3eissn
0002-9483issn
1096-8644journal_volume
145pub_type
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