So for this session and the rest of the meeting my laptop decided it no longer wanted to hold a charge so I was relegated to using old school methods of taking notes...my notebook and a pen! Gasp.
Didier Raoult, Faculte de Medecine; IHU Mediterranee Infection
Paleomicrobiology: Human Infections and Antiquity
Needless to say there's a lot of disease in our human history leaving an indelible mark...that we can find in frozen tissues, fixed tissues, mummies, bone and teeth. The most popular technique or perhaps the most used methodology you would start with in detection of pathogens is PCR.
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Didier Raoult, Faculte de Medecine; IHU Mediterranee Infection
Paleomicrobiology: Human Infections and Antiquity
"Everything was called plague back then..."There was the Thucidides plague in Athens, the Antonine plague, Justinian plague, Black Death,then the post Columbian era syphilis and 'eruptive fever' (measles and smallpox) followed by the great wars and lice; Douai (18th century), Napoleon (19th century), WWI in the 20th century and the Bolshevic revolution.
Needless to say there's a lot of disease in our human history leaving an indelible mark...that we can find in frozen tissues, fixed tissues, mummies, bone and teeth. The most popular technique or perhaps the most used methodology you would start with in detection of pathogens is PCR.
