Brief communication: evidence of Bartonella quintana infections in skeletons of a historical mass grave in Kassel, Germany |
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| Authors: | Grumbkow Philipp V Zipp Anna Seidenberg Verena Fehren-Schmitz Lars Kempf Volkhard A J Gross Uwe Hummel Susanne |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Department of Historical Anthropology and Human Ecology, Georg‐August‐University Goettingen, Buergerstra?e 50, 37073 Goettingen, Germany;2. Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511;3. Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Johann‐Wolfgang‐Goethe University, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;4. Institute of Medical Microbiology, Centre of Hygiene and Human Genetics, Georg‐August‐University Goettingen, Kreuzbergring 57, 37075 Goettingen, Germany |
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| Abstract: | In 2008, a mass grave was found on the grounds of the University of Kassel, Germany. Historians hypothesized that the individuals died in a typhoid fever epidemic in winter 1813/14. To test this hypothesis, the bones were investigated on the presence of specific DNA of pathogens linked to the historical diagnosis oftyphoid fever. It was possible to prove the specific DNA of Bartonella quintana in three individuals, suggesting that their cause of death is linked to an epidemic background. |
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| Keywords: | Napoleon's wars skeletons aDNA typhoid fever Bartonella quintana |
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