Parasitism in Kansas in the 1800s: a glimpse to the past through the analysis of grave sediments from Meadowlark cemetery

During the excavations of the XIX century Meadowlark cemetery (Manhattan, Kansas, US), samples of sediments were taken from around five skeletons, and analyzed to detect intestinal parasites. No helminth eggs were found, but immunological ELISA tests for Entamoeba histolytica were positive in three...

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Autores principales:	Matthieu Le Bailly, Marcelo LC Gonçalves, Christine Lefèvre, Donna C Roper, Jeremy W Pye, Adauto Araujo, Françoise Bouchet
Formato:	Artigo
Lenguaje:	Inglês
Publicado:	Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2006-12-01
Colección:	Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Materias:	paleoparasitology ancient diseases paleoepidemiology protozoal infection amoebiasis
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762006001000009
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