Publication details
Příspěvek k problematice diagnostiky tuberkulózy na kosterních pozůstatcích
| Title in English | On Diagnosing Tuberculosis from Skeletal Remains |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2000 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Zborník referátov a posterov z antropologických dní s medzinárodnou účasťou 25.-26.10.1999 |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; DNA; PCR method; bone remains; paleopathology |
| Description | In recent years, five new cases of tuberculosis have been diagnosed from skeletal remains in Moravia. Paleopathological diagnosis was supported by macroscopic, histologic and x-ray examinations.The reliability of these traditional diagnostic procedures was verified by the detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA with the aid of the PCR.Macroscopic examination alone was sufficient in the case of the characteristic tuberculous spondylitis from the Krtiny ossarium (13th to 18th c.AD).In the case of coxarthritis from Jihlava (1720s)and of rib periostitis from Hnanice in the Znojmo region (about 4.000 BC),the case of the left tibia from Krtiny (13th to 18thc. AD), in the Olomouc case (12th c. AD), the diagnosis of tuberculosis was reached only with the aid of genetic methods based on the confirmation of the presence of the M. tuberculosis DNA. |
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