| Title |
Ancient Skeletal Evidence for Leprosy in India (2000 B.C.)
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0005669 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gwen Robbins, V. Mushrif Tripathy, V. N. Misra, R. K. Mohanty, V. S. Shinde, Kelsey M. Gray, Malcolm D. Schug |
| Abstract |
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that affects almost 250,000 people worldwide. The timing of first infection, geographic origin, and pattern of transmission of the disease are still under investigation. Comparative genomics research has suggested M. leprae evolved either in East Africa or South Asia during the Late Pleistocene before spreading to Europe and the rest of the World. The earliest widely accepted evidence for leprosy is in Asian texts dated to 600 B.C. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 11 | 85% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 77% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 289 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 46 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 45 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 39 | 13% |
| Researcher | 29 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 7% |
| Other | 57 | 19% |
| Unknown | 61 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 51 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 48 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 39 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 29 | 10% |
| Arts and Humanities | 18 | 6% |
| Other | 46 | 15% |
| Unknown | 67 | 22% |