Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Inflammatory Changes in the Osteological Remains from the Křtiny Ossuary (Czech Republic)
AU  - Horáčková L
AU  - Vargová L
Y1  - 2001
VL  - 39
IS  - 1
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 57
EP  - 62
KW  - Bone remains
KW  - Inflammations
KW  - Osteomyelitis
KW  - Syphilis
KW  - Tuberculosis
N2  - 
N2  - Skeletal remains of nearly 1,000 individuals coming from the 13th-18th centuries were found in an ossuary in Křtiny (Czech Republic). From the total number of detected pathological cases in the Křtiny set (N=306), inflammatory lesions made 33.0%. The traces of inflammations occurred in 10.3% (15 cases) in all the detected palaeopathological lesions in skulls (N=146=100%). Most of cranial lesions had typical signs of syphilis. Leprous disease could not be eliminated in one case. Postcranial skeleton bones most often showed non-specific inflammations of post-traumatic purulent osteomyelitis. The diagnosis of tuberculosis (two cases) was supported by DNA detection specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis by means of PCR methods. 
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