Possible Brucellosis in an Early Hominin Skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa

We report on the paleopathological analysis of the partial skeleton of the late Pliocene hominin species Australopithecus africanus Stw 431 from Sterkfontein, South Africa. A previous study noted the presence of lesions on vertebral bodies diagnosed as spondylosis deformans due to trauma. Instead, w...

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Autores principales: D'Anastasio, Ruggero, Zipfel, Bernhard, Moggi-Cecchi, Jacopo, Stanyon, Roscoe, Capasso, Luigi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19649274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006439

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19649274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006439

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