| ancient dna from ascaris: extraction amplification and sequences from eggs collected in coprolites. | on the middle-age site of namur (belgium) the analysis of coprolites revealed the presence of many well-preserved ascaris eggs. following rehydratation of the coprolite samples, 104 eggs were collected and extracted with an ultrasonication and phenol-chloroform based method. three overlapping fragments of the 18s rrna gene and one fragment of the cytochrome b gene have been reproducibly amplified, cloned and sequenced. the analysis of these sequences confirms the identification of the eggs as co ... | 2001 | 11429174 |
| paleoparasitological remains revealed by seven historic contexts from "place d'armes", namur, belgium. | human occupation for several centuries was recorded in the archaeological layers of "place d'armes", namur, belgium. preventive archaeological excavations were carried out between 1996/1997 and seven historical strata were observed, from gallo-roman period up to modern times. soil samples from cesspools, latrines, and structures-like were studied and revealed intestinal parasite eggs in the different archaeological contexts. ascaris lumbricoides, a. suum, trichuris trichiura, t. suis. taenia sp. ... | 2006 | 17308808 |
| paleoparasitology at "place d'armes", namur, belgium: a biostatistics analysis of trichurid eggs between the old and new world. | paleoparasitological findings about human occupation and their domestic animals, from gallo-roman period up to recent times, were described at the archaeological site of "place d'armes", namur, belgium, by preventive archaeological excavations. organic sediment samples from cesspools, latrines and structures-like were analyzed and revealed intestinal parasite eggs (helminthes) in all of the different archaeological contexts. the parasitic association ascaris sp. and trichuris sp. was found altho ... | 2009 | 19772780 |