Title: Digging for pathogens : ancient emerging diseases - their evolutionary, anthropological, and archaeological context /
Authors: Greenblatt, Charles L.; Center for the Study of Emerging Diseases.
Publisher: Balaban,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Diseases and history.; Communicable Diseases etiology; Communicable Diseases history; Paleopathology; DNA analysis
Contents: Introduction to the Center for the Study of Emerging Diseases -- An Overview: Why knowing the causes of ancient diseases may contribute to our understanding of emerging diseases -- Earth history and the evolution of sickness -- Emerging diseases, ancient pathogens, and the evolution of virulence -- The microbiology of amber -- Aquatic symbionts and pathogens -- Ancient and new -- Cellulase enzymes and the evolution of Trypanosomatids -- Algal inheritance of pathogenic protozoa -- Wellness and disease: The pliopleistocene and holocene record -- Ancient disease in anthropological context -- Culture, environment and disease: Paleo-anthropological findings for the southern levant -- How can we reconstruct the epidemiology of infectious diseases in the past? -- The molecular epidemiology of 19th century cholera -- Tuberculosis and the Jews in the ancient Near East: The biocultural interaction -- The archaeological and geological fate of biomolecules -- Ancient DNA can identify disease elements -- A guide to digging for pathogens -- The evolution of Oral Microbiota and the spread of dental disease -- DNZ extraction and PCR.