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Diagnostic des lésions infectieuses au sein de populations néolithiques de Syrie (Néolithique précéramique B, 8700-7700 av. J.-C.) : deux cas probables de tuberculose à Dja'de el Mughara et Tell Aswad
Human tuberculosis has been considered for a long time as a model of animal infection transmitted to humans, resulting from cattle domestication at the Neolithic period. A decade ago, studies of molecular phylogeny of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) has challenged this dogma, suggesting that this human infection could be as old as...
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The question of pre-neolithic tuberculosis is still open in paleopathological perspective. One of the major interests is to explore what type of infection could have existed around the early stage of animal domestication. Paleopathological lesions evoking skeletal TB were observed on five human skeletons coming from two PPNB sites in Syria,...