Issue |
Parasite
Volume 21, 2014
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Article Number | 9 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014010 | |
Published online | 28 February 2014 |
Research Article
Probable hepatic capillariosis and hydatidosis in an adolescent from the late Roman period buried in Amiens (France)
Capillariose et hydatidose hépatiques probables chez un adolescent du bas Empire inhumé à Amiens (France)
1
Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, PO Box 6446, Tehran
14155, Iran
2
PACEA, UMR 5199, Anthropologie des Populations Passées et Présentes, Université de Bordeaux, Bâtiment B8, Allée Geoffroy St Hilaire, CS 50023, 33615
Pessac Cedex, France
3
Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Hôpital Cochin Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Descartes, 27 Faubourg St Jacques, 75014
Paris, France
4
Research Center for Hydatid Disease in Iran, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman
76169-14111, Iran
5
Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, 69 Pasteur Avenue, Tehran
13169-43551, Iran
6
Center for Research of Endemic Parasites of Iran (CREPI), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, PO Box 6446, Tehran
14155, Iran
* Corresponding author: jean.dupouy-camet@cch.aphp.fr
Received:
30
October
2013
Accepted:
13
February
2014
Two calcified objects recovered from a 3rd to 4th-century grave of an adolescent in Amiens (Northern France) were identified as probable hydatid cysts. By using thin-section petrographic techniques, probable Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) eggs were identified in the wall of the cysts. Human hepatic capillariosis has not been reported from archaeological material so far, but could be expected given the poor level of environmental hygiene prevalent in this period. Identification of tissue-dwelling parasites such as C. hepaticum in archaeological remains is particularly dependent on preservation conditions and taphonomic changes and should be interpreted with caution due to morphological similarities with Trichuris sp. eggs.
Résumé
Deux objets calcifiés découverts dans la tombe d’un adolescent du 3ème-4ème siècle à Amiens (France) ont été identifiés comme des kystes hydatiques probables. En utilisant des techniques pétrographiques, des œufs de Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) ont été identifiés dans la paroi de ces kystes. La capillariose hépatique n’a jamais été rapportée de restes archéologiques mais n’est pas inattendue compte tenu du bas niveau d’hygiène de cette époque. L’identification de parasites tissulaires comme C. hepaticum dans des vestiges archéologiques est particulièrement dépendante des conditions de conservation et de changements taphonomiques et doit être interprétée avec circonspection en raison des similitudes morphologiques de ces œufs avec ceux du trichocéphale (Trichuris sp.).
Key words: Paleoparasitology / Capillariosis / Hydatidosis / Calodium / Capillaria / Echinococcus granulosus
© G. Mowlavi et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2014
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