A Case Study
Was Private William Braine of the 1845 Franklin Expedition a Victim of Tuberculosis? + Supplementary Appendix 1 (See Article Tools)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16864458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jannine Forst (0000-0002-3309-3165, University of Manchester), Thomas A Brown (0000-0002-1006-1099, University of Manchester), Terence A Brown |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ARCTIC (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0843 • E-ISSN: 1923-1245 |
| Publisher | The Arctic Institute of North America (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14430/arctic4683 |
| OpenAlex | W2771795184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
The Franklin expedition set sail in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. During the first winter in the Arctic, three crewmen died of unknown causes. In the 1980s, Dr. Owen Beattie and his colleagues conducted autopsies, which indicated that all three may have suffered from tuberculosis at the time of death. In the present study, a bone sample from one of these individuals, Private William Braine, was analyzed for ancient DNA belonging to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tests based on both the polymerase chain reaction and next-generation sequencing were carried out. The results show that it is unlikely that tuberculosis contributed directly to his death
Ancient DNA · Archaeology · Arctic · Environmental health · Genealogy · Mycobacterium tuberculosis · Pathology · The arctic · Tuberculosis · Biotechnology and Related Fields · Geology · History · Medicine · Neurology and Historical Studies · Oceanography
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Biomolecular identification of ancient Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in human remains from Britain and continental Europe
The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |