NDLI: A 9,000-year record of Chagas' disease

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Author	Aufderheide, Arthur C. Salo, Wilmar Madden, Michael Streitz, John Buikstra, Jane Guhl, Felipe Arriaza, Bernardo Renier, Colleen Wittmers, Lorentz E. Fornaciari, Gino Allison, Marvin
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Tissue specimens from 283 principally spontaneously (naturally) desiccated human mummies from coastal and low valley sites in northern Chile and southern Peru were tested with a DNA probe directed at a kinetoplast DNA segment of Trypanosoma cruzi. The time interval spanned by the eleven major cultural groups represented in the sample ranged from ≈9,000 years B.P. (7050 B.C.) to approximately the time of the Spanish conquest, ≈450 B.P. (≈1500 A.D.). Forty-one percent of the tissue extracts, amplified by the PCR reacted positively (i.e., hybridized) with the probe. Prevalence patterns demonstrated no statistically significant differences among the individual cultural groups, nor among subgroups compared on the basis of age, sex, or weight of specimen tested. These results suggest that the sylvatic (animal-infected) cycle of Chagas' disease was probably well established at the time that the earliest humans (members of the Chinchorro culture) first peopled this segment of the Andean coast and inadvertently joined the many other mammal species acting as hosts for this parasite.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0307312101
Ending Page	2039
Page Count	6
Starting Page	2034
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	7
Volume Number	101
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2004-02-17
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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