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Evidence of a Louse-Borne Outbreak Involving Typhus in Douai, 1710-1712 during the War of Spanish Succession

BACKGROUND: The new field of paleomicrobiology allows past outbreaks to be identified by testing dental pulp of human remains with PCR. METHODS: We identified a mass grave in Douai, France dating from the early XVIII(th) century. This city was besieged during the European war of Spanish succession....

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Autores principales: Nguyen-Hieu, Tung, Aboudharam, Gérard, Signoli, Michel, Rigeade, Catherine, Drancourt, Michel, Raoult, Didier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21060879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015405