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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Genetic Evidence of the Black Death in the Abbey of San Leonardo (Apulia Region, Italy): Tracing the Cause of Death in Two Individuals Buried with Coins.

Donato Antonio Raele, Ginevra Panzarino, Giuseppe Sarcinelli, Maria Assunta Cafiero, Anna Maria Tunzi, Elena Dellù

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Donato Antonio RaeleIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, 71121 Foggia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2627-0669
Ginevra PanzarinoDepartament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, Universitat de Valéncia, 46003 Valencia, Spain.
Giuseppe SarcinelliDepartment of Cultural Heritage, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
Maria Assunta CafieroIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, 71121 Foggia, Italy.
Anna Maria TunziSoprintendenza ABAP per la Città Metropolitana di Bari, Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, 70121 Bari, Italy.
Elena DellùSoprintendenza ABAP per la Città Metropolitana di Bari, Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, 70121 Bari, Italy.
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata · ITUniversitat de València · ESUniversity of Salento · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Abbey of San Leonardo in Siponto (Apulia, Southern Italy) was an important religious and medical center during the Middle Ages. It was a crossroads for pilgrims heading along the Via Francigena to the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo and for merchants passing through the harbor of Manfredonia. A recent excavation of Soprintendenza Archeologica della Puglia investigated a portion of the related cemetery, confirming its chronology to be between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century. Two single graves preserved individuals accompanied by numerous coins dating back to the 14th century, hidden in clothes and in a bag tied to the waist. The human remains of the individuals were analyzed in the Laboratorio di Antropologia Fisica of Soprintendenza ABAP della città metropolitana di Bari. Three teeth from each individual were collected and sent to the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Puglia e Basilicata to study infectious diseases such as malaria, plague, tuberculosis, epidemic typhus and Maltese fever (Brucellosis), potentially related to the lack of inspection of the bodies during burial procedures. DNA extracted from six collected teeth and two additional unrelated human teeth (negative controls) were analyzed using PCR to verify the presence of human DNA (β-globulin) and of pathogens such as

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ancient DNABlack DeathcoinsItalyplagueYersinia pestis

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