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Isotopic Anthropology of Rural German Medieval Diet: Intra- and Inter-population Variability

2016

This study investigates the diet of an eleventh century CE parish community located in northwestern Germany. We assessed the isotopic compositions of human (n = 24) and faunal (n = 17) bone collagen (δ 13Ccol, δ 15Ncol) and human structural carbonate (δ 13Csc) using skeletal material recovered from the Dalheim cemetery. Traditional interpretation of the isotopic data indicates that Dalheim residents likely relied on a C3 plant-based diet and consumed some terrestrial animal products without evidence of marine resource input in the diet. Bivariate and multivariate models used as an additional means to assess diet indicate minor consumption of C4 plant foods in this community. The multivariat…

010506 paleontologyArcheologyArqueologia medievalPopulationFood consumption610 Medicine & healthBiological and Physical AnthropologyBiologyTerrestrial animalPlant foods01 natural sciences0601 history and archaeologySkeletal materialeducationmedieval Germany0105 earth and related environmental sciencesTrophic leveleducation.field_of_studyBone collagen060102 archaeologyEcologyisotopic modelling06 humanities and the artspaleodietbiology.organism_classificationPopulation variabilityArchaeologyAnthropology11294 Institute of Evolutionary Medicine3314 Anthropology3302 Archeologycarbon and nitrogen isotopes1204 Archeology (arts and humanities)Archaeological Anthropology

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Ancient bacterial genomes reveal a high diversity of Treponema pallidum Strains in early Modern Europe

2020

Syphilis is a globally re-emerging disease, which has marked European history with a devastating epidemic at the end of the 15th century. Together with non-venereal treponemal diseases, like bejel and yaws, which are found today in subtropical and tropical regions, it currently poses a substantial health threat worldwide. The origins and spread of treponemal diseases remain unresolved, including syphilis’ potential introduction into Europe from the Americas. Here, we present the first genetic data from archaeological human remains reflecting a high diversity of Treponema pallidum in early modern Europe. Our study demonstrates that a variety of strains related to both venereal syphilis and y…

0301 basic medicineLineage (evolution)TPRKDiseaseSubspeciesANNOTATION0302 clinical medicineEPIDEMIOLOGYHistory 15th CenturyTreponemaAncient DNAbiologyORIGINAncient DNA; Pathogen evolution; Treponema pallidum; Syphilis; Yaws2800 General Neuroscience10218 Institute of Legal Medicine3. Good healthEuropeMANIFESTATIONSArchaeologySister group1181 Ecology evolutionary biologyGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences610 Medicine & healthGenetics and Molecular Biology1100 General Agricultural and Biological SciencesPathogen evolutionGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyUFSP13-7 Evolution in Action: From Genomes to Ecosystems03 medical and health sciences1300 General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologymedicineHumansSYPHILIS SPIROCHETETreponema pallidumSyphilisDNA AncientIDENTIFICATIONGenetic Variationbiology.organism_classificationmedicine.diseaseHistory MedievalDNA-SEQUENCES030104 developmental biologyAncient DNAEvolutionary biologyYaws11294 Institute of Evolutionary MedicineGeneral BiochemistryVISUALIZATIONSyphilisEarly modern EuropeGenome Bacterial030217 neurology & neurosurgery

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Fasciola hepatica eggs in paleofaeces of the Persian onager Equus hemionus onager, a donkey from Chehrabad archaeological site, dating back to the Sa…

2018

Fascioliasis is a highly pathogenic zoonotic disease caused by the liver trematodes Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica. Within the multidisciplinary initiative against this disease, there is the aim of understanding how this disease reached a worldwide distribution, with important veterinary and medical repercussions, by elucidating the spreading steps followed by the two fasciolids from their paleobiogeograhical origins. Fasciola eggs were detected in paleofaeces of a donkey, probably the present-day endangered Persian onager Equus hemionus onager, found in the Chehrabad salt mine archaeological site, Zanjan province, northwestern Iran. The biological remains dated back to the Sassanid per…

0301 basic medicineMicrobiology (medical)Fascioliasis030231 tropical medicine610 Medicine & healthPersian onagerIranMicrobiology2726 Microbiology (medical)03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine1311 GeneticsHepaticaparasitic diseasesGenetics1312 Molecular BiologyAnimalsDomesticationMolecular BiologyHistory AncientEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsMiddle EastFasciolabiologybusiness.industry2404 MicrobiologyEquidae2725 Infectious DiseasesFasciola hepatica030108 mycology & parasitologybiology.organism_classificationEquusArchaeologyHistory MedievalInfectious Diseases1105 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics11294 Institute of Evolutionary MedicineLivestockDonkeybusiness

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sj-docx-14-tam-10.1177_17588359221110162 – Supplemental material for The diagnostic accuracy of PIK3CA mutations by circulating tumor DNA in breast c…

2022

Supplemental material, sj-docx-14-tam-10.1177_17588359221110162 for The diagnostic accuracy of PIK3CA mutations by circulating tumor DNA in breast cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis by Antonio Galvano, Luisa Castellana, Valerio Gristina, Maria La Mantia, Lavinia Insalaco, Nadia Barraco, Alessandro Perez, Sofia Cutaia, Valentina Calò, Tancredi Didier Bazan Russo, Edoardo Francini, Lorena Incorvaia, Mario Giuseppe Mirisola, Salvatore Vieni, Christian Rolfo, Viviana Bazan and Antonio Russo in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology