Figure 3. Skeletal lesions of leprosy and isolation of lesion-associated Mycobacterium
leprae DNA" Frontal view (a) and left side view (b) of archaeological skeletal remains …

The Nabe-kaburi is a unique burial method, the purpose of which is shrouded in mystery.
The burials were performed during the 15th to 18th centuries in eastern Japan, and involved …

We isolated ancient DNA from skeletal remains obtained from a South German ossuary
(approximately 1400–1800 ad) and from a 10th century Hungarian cemetery partially …

Hershkovitz et al.(1992) reported on a skeleton from Bet Guvrin, Israel, dating from the
Byzantine period (300-600 AD). There were pathological changes in the lower extremities …

This study is based on the paleaopathology of leprosy on human skeletal remains and the
detection of ancient Mycobacterium leprae DNA. Two cases of childhood leprosy were …

We report on a Mycobacterium leprae genome isolated from the remains of an individual
with lepromatous leprosy that were excavated from a seventh‐century Hungarian cemetery …

Abstract Objective We assessed whether Petrus Donders (died 1887), a Dutch priest who for
27 years cared for people with leprosy in the leprosarium Batavia, Suriname, had evidence …

We have amplified Mycobacterium leprae DNA from the skeleton of an adult human female
exhibiting signs of lepromatous leprosy (LL). The remains were excavated from the site of …

Orosháza site no. 10 (Southeast Hungary) contains the partially excavated archaeological
remains of an 11-13th century CE Muslim merchant village and its cemetery located in close …

Using ancient DNA methods, we have examined in detail two archaeological cases of
leprosy from Mediaeval England. The first was a child skeleton with rhino-maxillary changes …