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Palaeopathological Evidence of Infectious Disease in a Skeletal Population from Late Medieval Riga, Latvia (15Th-17Th Centuries AD)

2017

Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of infectious disease in the Dome Church (Riga Cathedral) Cemetery population, dating from the late medieval period (15th-17th centuries AD). A total of 274 individuals were macroscopically observed for evidence of infectious disease, and seven individuals with lesions possibly associated with a bacterial infection affecting the skeleton were selected for further analysis. Pathological changes on the outer table of the skull and in the long bones of legs characteristic of venereal syphilis were observed in four female and one male individual. Likewise, changes possibly related to late congenital syphilis were observed in a 14-15-ye…

0106 biological scienceseducation.field_of_study060101 anthropologyMultidisciplinaryinfectious diseaseSciencePopulationQ06 humanities and the artsAncient history010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesvenereal syphilisGeographytuberculosisInfectious disease (medical specialty)0601 history and archaeologypalaeopathologyeducationProceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B, Natural Sciences
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