Paleomicrobiology : past human infections / Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt, editors.

Date:
[2008], ©2008
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Berlin : Springer, [2008], ©2008.

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xiii, 226 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Great plagues of the past and remaining questions / Cheston B. Cunha and Burke A. Cunha -- Identification and interpretation of historical cemeteries linked to epidemics / Dominique Castex -- Archaeological proof of an abrupt mortality crisis : simultaneous deposit of cadavers, simultaneous deaths? / Henri Duday -- Molecular detection of past pathogens / Michel Drancourt and Didier Raoult -- Histologic detection of past pathogens / Hubert Lepidi -- Palaeomicrobiology of tuberculosis / Helen D. Donoghue -- Past leprae / Andreas G. Nerlich and Albert R. Zink -- Archaeology of human pathogens : palaeopathological appraisal of palaeoepidemiology / Olivier Dutour -- Past plague / Michel Drancourt and Didier Raoult -- Typhoid fever epidemic in ancient Athens / Manolis J. Papagrigorakis, Christos Yapijakis and Philippos N. Synodinos -- Dental pulp as a tool for the retrospective diagnosis of infectious diseases / Vu Dang La ... [et al.] -- History of influenza pandemics / Bruno Lina -- Human lice : Pediculus and Pthirus / Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu.

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  • 9783540758549
  • 3540758542
  • 9783540758556
  • 3540758550