Palaeopathological evidence of infectious disease in skeletal populations from later medieval Serbia

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ID4677982
AuthorsMarija Djurić‐srejić, M Djurić-Srejić (University of Belgrade), Charlotte A Roberts (0000-0002-2259-807X, Durham University, corresponding author), Charlotte Roberts (0000-0002-1612-4214)
Year2001
Volume11
Issue5
Pages311-320
Publication date2001-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1047-482X • E-ISSN: 1099-1212
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/oa.570
OpenAlexW2051553132
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

Published data on palaeopathology are limited from the area of Serbia. This paper provides evidence for infectious disease in 1617 skeletons from eight Medieval Serbian cemeteries. Two hundred and three individuals were analysed by the first author and data on the remaining skeletons were derived from previous published work. A total of 23 adult individuals, and no non-adults, had evidence of infectious disease. Historical data on infectious disease at that time are considered, particularly leprosy, treponemal disease, and infections affecting only the soft tissues, such as the plague, dysentery, smallpox and rabies, and the results of the analyses compared, with discussions on the limitations of the study. Copyright (c) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Disease · Dysentery · Geography · Leprosy · Paleopathology · Pathology · Smallpox · Typhus · Vaccination · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Immunology · Virology

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