Brief communication
Co‐detection of Bartonella quintana and Yersinia pestis in an 11th–15th burial site in Bondy, France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8315736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thi‐Nguyen‐Ny Tran, Thi-Nguyen-Ny Tran (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Cyrille Le Forestier (0000-0003-4653-2240, Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives), Michel Drancourt (0000-0003-0768-1139, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Didier Raoult (0000-0002-0633-5974, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Gérard Aboudharam (0000-0003-4472-9154, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 145 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 489-494 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.21510 |
| PMID | 21541920 |
| OpenAlex | W2085259118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Historical and anthropological data suggest that skeletons excavated from an 11th to 15th century mass grave in Bondy, France, may be those of victims of the Great Plague. Using high‐throughput real‐time PCR investigation of the dental pulp collected from 14 teeth from five such skeletons, we detected Bartonella quintana DNA in three individuals and Yersinia pestis DNA in two individuals. DNA from five other deadly pathogens was not found. Suicide PCR genotyping confirmed Y. pestis DNA belonging to the Orientalis biotype. One individual had co‐infection. These data suggest a plague epidemic in a population already infected by the body louse‐transmitted B. quintana or a body louse‐driven transmission of the plague that drove a medieval epidemic in inland Europe. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2011. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Ancient DNA · Archaeology · Bartonella · Biology · Environmental health · Gene · Genotype · Genotyping · Geography · Louse · Plague (disease) · Population · Yersinia pestis · Zoology · Bartonella species infections research · Genetics · Medicine · Vector-borne infectious diseases · Virology · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |