Insights from ancient DNA analysis of Egyptian human mummies: clues to disease and kinship

YZ Gad, NAM Hassan, DM Mousa… - Human Molecular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… has provided molecular evidence of TB infection in ancient Egyptian subjects (22… molecular
evidence of bacteremia by gastrointestinal pathogenic bacteria in an infant Egyptian mummy

Evolution of orthopaedic diseases through four thousand three hundred years: from ancient Egypt with virtual examinations of mummies to the twenty-first century

P Hernigou, GA Hosny, M Scarlat - International Orthopaedics, 2024 - Springer
… However, a recent study [53] has examined genome-wide datasets from Egyptian mummies.
This analysis establishes that ancient Egyptian mummies (when not from royal families) …

Tuberculosis in mummies–New findings, perspectives and limitations

A Zink, F Maixner, HY Jäger, I Szikossy, G Pálfi, I Pap - Tuberculosis, 2023 - Elsevier
… Currently, the oldest molecular evidence of tuberculosis in the Old World originates from …
In the New World, the earliest evidence of TB is derived from a 17,500-year-old bison bone …

History of Ancient DNA Analysis in Mummy Research

JH Hong, CS Oh, DH Shin - The Handbook of Mummy Studies: New …, 2021 - Springer
tuberculosis aDNA and evidenced its presence in the ancient Egypt mummy’s lung. Zink et
… AG, Haas CJ, Zink A et al (1997) Molecular evidence for tuberculosis in an ancient Egyptian

[PDF][PDF] Diagnosing Tuberculosis

L Andersson - 2021 - lup.lub.lu.se
… As one of our oldest known diseases, tuberculosis has left a mark on our society. The still
visible traces of the sanatoriums and institutions, to which the sick were confided to, tells us a …

[HTML][HTML] The paleopathological evidence on the origins of human tuberculosis: a review

I Buzic, V Giuffra - Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of tuberculosis are outlined, according to the evidence of paleopathology. In particular the
first cases of human TB in ancient … The first Egyptian cases of TB confirmed by molecular

History of tuberculosis-from the first records to the detection of the agent (Part I).

Ž Cvetnić, Ž Dugac - 2020 - cabidigitallibrary.org
… caused by bone tuberculosis, and advancements in molecular biology decisively have …
There is wide evidence of tuberculosis on mummy bones from ancient Egypt (2500 BC). In …

[HTML][HTML] 2000-year-old pathogen genomes reconstructed from metagenomic analysis of Egyptian mummified individuals

J Neukamm, S Pfrengle, M Molak, A Seitz, M Francken… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
… , created through artificial mummification processes, have long … In total, 133 samples from
119 mummified ancient Egyptians were … In addition to our molecular dates, there are older …

The Vác Mummy Project: Investigation of 265 eighteenth-century mummified remains from the TB pandemic era

HD Donoghue, I Pap, I Szikossy… - The Handbook of Mummy …, 2021 - Springer
… years, 75% of females and 81% of males buried in the crypt show molecular evidence of
tuberculosis. However, there is limited evidence of tuberculosis being the direct cause of death. …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic active non-lethal human-type tuberculosis in a high royal Bavarian officer of Napoleonic times–a mummy study

AG Nerlich, SM Kirchhoff, S Panzer, C Lehn… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… and molecular evidence for infection by mycobacteria of the M. tuberculosis complex (MTC) …
individual provides clear evidence of a long-term case of active tuberculosis that was non-…