Lesión litica craniana por Leishmaniasis en Makat-tampu durante el império inca: siglos XV-XVI, valle dei Bajo Rímac, Peru.

Enciso, Alfredo José Altamirano; Moreira, João; Marzochi, Mauro Célio de Almeida

doi:10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2001.109420

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“…The mucosal form is also depicted in pottery (Huacos) from the pre-Incan Moche and Chimu eras, found in Peru and Ecuador and dated to 400-900 AD, representing facial deformations suggestive of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (64). Paleopathological material from prehistoric skulls studied in Peru, close to modern-day Lima (65) and in the Atacama Desert in Chile, from 500 to 1,000 years ago, show lesions in the facial bone structure that are consistent with the mucosal form, proven by the detection of Leishmania DNA (66,67).…”

Section: History and Dispersal Of Leishmania (V) Braziliensismentioning

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Anthropogenic Dispersal of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the Americas: A Plausible Hypothesis

Marzochi

Fagundes

et al. 2021

Front. Trop. Dis

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There are several gaps in our knowledge on the origin and spread of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis, an etiological agent of cutaneous and mucocutaneous or American tegumentary leishmaniasis, to different biomes, hosts, and vectors, with important epidemiological implications, including the possible existence of an anthroponotic component. Historical, biological, and epidemiological evidence suggests that Leishmania (V.) braziliensis and its variants were preexistent in Amazonia with great genetic variability, where they dispersed with less variability to other regions (clonal expansion). During pre-Columbian times the parasite may have been transported by migrating humans and probably also their dogs, from western Amazonia to the high inter-Andean valleys and from there to other regions of South America. The same thing could have happened later, in the same way, when it spread to non-Amazonian regions of Brazil and other countries of South and Central America, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, during the so-called Rubber Boom and construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railway in the Brazilian Amazon, by migrant workers who later returned to their places of origin, transporting the agent. The parasite’s dispersal in genetic correlated clusters, involving unexpectedly distinct ecosystems in Brazil (Amazonian, Cerrado, Caatinga and Atlantic Forest biomes), has continued until the present through human displacement. The infection of certain species of domestic, synanthropic and even wild animals, could be secondary to anthropogenic introduction of L. (V.) braziliensis in new environments. We admit the same phenomena happening in the probable transference of Leishmania infantum (visceral leishmaniasis), and of Yersinia pestis (plague) from the Old world to the New world, generating domestic and wild enzotic cycles from these agents. These assumptions associated with human infections, chronicity and parasite persistence with possibility of recovery of Leishmania in peripheral blood, skin and scars of cured or asymptomatic patients, (that may provide an alternative blood meal), along with the sand flies’ adaptation to the peri-domicile and the high susceptibility of domestic dogs, horses, mules and cats to the parasite, can reinforce the evidence of anthropogenic spread of L. (V.) braziliensis.

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Section: History and Dispersal Of Leishmania (V) Braziliensismentioning

confidence: 95%

Anthropogenic Dispersal of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the Americas: A Plausible Hypothesis

Marzochi

Fagundes

et al. 2021

Front. Trop. Dis

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“…MCL is the only form of the disease in which bone lesions may be developed, mainly in nasal septum, palate, and other facial bones (David & Craft, 2009;Desjeux, 2004). For that reason, MCL is the most common form of leishmaniasis diagnosed in ancient skeletal remain (e.g., Allison, Gerszten, & Fouant, 1982;Altamirano Enciso, Soares Moreira, & Marzochi, 2001;Costa, Matheson, Iachetta, Llagostera, & Appenzeller, 2009), with only some exceptions (e.g., Zink et al, 2006). On the contrary, CL and VL do not involve any bone lesions.…”

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Interdisciplinary identification of the skeletal remains of Catherine Roberts‐Davies, The first Welsh settler death in Patagonia, Argentina in 1865

Dahinten

Otero

Suby

et al. 2020

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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In 1995, an almost complete human skeleton was found in Punta Cuevas, in the southern coast of Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina. The burial traits and the associated objects suggested the skeleton might belong to Mrs. Catherine Roberts‐Davies, a middle‐aged woman who was the first dead person among the first group of 163 Welsh settlers that set sail on May 28, 1865, from Liverpool to Bahía Nueva, in Argentinian Patagonia. The aim of this paper is to present the interdisciplinary studies conducted between 1995 and 2016 in order to identify these remains and to explore the possible causes of death. The age at death of the skeleton was estimated between 25 and 40 years old and sexed as female. The analyses of mtDNA haplogroup resulted in K2a, which is highly frequent in European populations. An ascendant maternal genealogy of Mrs. Roberts‐Davies was reconstructed, based on documentary sources. After this genealogical research, a living descendant, who currently lives in Wales, was found. An mtDNA analysis of control region 16024‐576 was compared among samples taken from the unknown skeleton and the descendant. The results confirmed that the skeleton found in Punta Cuevas belongs to Mrs. Catherine Roberts‐Davies. With respect to the cause of death, according to two historical medical reports, Mrs. Roberts‐Davies died from “black fever” (i.e., visceral leishmaniasis) or scurvy. Skeletal evidence suggests that she could have suffered from scurvy as a consequence of the harsh conditions of living during the trip from Liverpool and the first days after the arrival to Patagonia.

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“…(Cantacessi et al 2015;Dantas-Torres and Otranto 2014). Some must have infected people in pre-Columbian times based on osteological (Enciso et al 2001), immunological (Frías et al 2013), and other palaeopathological data (Costa Junqueira et al 2009;Marsteller et al 2011), the recovery of ceramics showing human faces disfigured by what looks like mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (which is restricted to Latin America), and sixteenth-century Spanish descriptions of the disease, though comparable evidence of the almost always fatal visceral form is understandably lacking (Lainson 2012). As well as L. infantum, two native species, in particular, 'deserve greater attention' with regard to canine leishmaniasis (Dantas-Torres 2009, p. 6).…”

Section: Visceral Leishmaniasismentioning

confidence: 99%

Disease: A Hitherto Unexplored Constraint on the Spread of Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Pre-Columbian South America

Mitchell

2017

J World Prehist

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Lesión litica craniana por Leishmaniasis en Makat-tampu durante el império inca: siglos XV-XVI, valle dei Bajo Rímac, Peru.

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Anthropogenic Dispersal of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the Americas: A Plausible Hypothesis

Anthropogenic Dispersal of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the Americas: A Plausible Hypothesis

Interdisciplinary identification of the skeletal remains of Catherine Roberts‐Davies, The first Welsh settler death in Patagonia, Argentina in 1865

Disease: A Hitherto Unexplored Constraint on the Spread of Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Pre-Columbian South America

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