Die Fälle von Spondylitis tuberculosa in der aargauischen Heilstätte Barmelweid aus den Jahren 1912–1930

Reinhart, Max

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“…The skeleton of an adult female from burial 17 from Nin exhibits lesions characteristic of vertebral tuberculosis: T7, T8 and T9 are collapsed and fused resulting in a sharply angular kyphosis (gibbus); this block is furthermore fused with one superior (T6) and three inferior vertebrae (T10-T12) giving a total of seven fused vertebrae. In pre-antibiotic times sharp angular kyphosis was present in nearly 60% of cases involving spinal tuberculosis (Reinhart, 1932). In the case from Nin differential diagnosis excluded osteomyelitis, vertebral compression fracture, and septic arthritis as possible factors for the noted changes.…”

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Skeletal and dental indicators of health in the late mediaeval (12–15th century) population from Nin, southern Croatia

Novak

Martinčić

Strinović

et al. 2012

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Skeletal and dental indicators of health in the late mediaeval (12–15th century) population from Nin, southern Croatia

Novak

Martinčić

Strinović

et al. 2012

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Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains

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Possible Brucellosis in an Early Hominin Skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa

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We report on the paleopathological analysis of the partial skeleton of the late Pliocene hominin species Australopithecus africanus Stw 431 from Sterkfontein, South Africa. A previous study noted the presence of lesions on vertebral bodies diagnosed as spondylosis deformans due to trauma. Instead, we suggest that these lesions are pathological changes due to the initial phases of an infectious disease, brucellosis. The macroscopic, microscopic and radiological appearance of the lytic lesions of the lumbar vertebrae is consistent with brucellosis. The hypothesis of brucellosis (most often associated with the consumption of animal proteins) in a 2.4 to 2.8 million year old hominid has a host of important implications for human evolution. The consumption of meat has been regarded an important factor in supporting, directing or altering human evolution. Perhaps the earliest (up to 2.5 million years ago) paleontological evidence for meat eating consists of cut marks on animal remains and stone tools that could have made these marks. Now with the hypothesis of brucellosis in A. africanus, we may have evidence of occasional meat eating directly linked to a fossil hominin.

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Die Fälle von Spondylitis tuberculosa in der aargauischen Heilstätte Barmelweid aus den Jahren 1912–1930

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Skeletal and dental indicators of health in the late mediaeval (12–15th century) population from Nin, southern Croatia

Skeletal and dental indicators of health in the late mediaeval (12–15th century) population from Nin, southern Croatia

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Possible Brucellosis in an Early Hominin Skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa

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