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The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis in skeletal remains of the 6th century A.D.
The early-medieval cemetery in Aschheim-Bajuwarenring, Upper Bavaria, Germany, consists of more than 430 graves with a large number of multiple burial sites (triple graves). Remains of two hand-holding women (green and blue) with a child in between (red), dated to the 6th century A. D. The agent of the plague, Yersinia pestis, was detected and characterized from tooth material of the blue colored skeleton. See Harbeck et al.
Image Credit: H.P. Volpert
Citation: (2013) PLOS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 9(5) May 2013. PLOS Pathog 9(5): ev09.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v09.i05
Published: May 30, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Harbeck et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The early-medieval cemetery in Aschheim-Bajuwarenring, Upper Bavaria, Germany, consists of more than 430 graves with a large number of multiple burial sites (triple graves). Remains of two hand-holding women (green and blue) with a child in between (red), dated to the 6th century A. D. The agent of the plague, Yersinia pestis, was detected and characterized from tooth material of the blue colored skeleton. See Harbeck et al.
Image Credit: H.P. Volpert