Epidemiological insights from a large-scale investigation of intestinal helminths in Medieval Europe.

• Main Authors: Patrik G Flammer (Author), Hannah Ryan (Author), Stephen G Preston (Author), Sylvia Warren (Author), Renáta Přichystalová (Author), Rainer Weiss (Author), Valerie Palmowski (Author), Sonja Boschert (Author), Katarina Fellgiebel (Author), Isabelle Jasch-Boley (Author), Madita-Sophie Kairies (Author), Ernst Rümmele (Author), Dirk Rieger (Author), Beate Schmid (Author), Ben Reeves (Author), Rebecca Nicholson (Author), Louise Loe (Author), Christopher Guy (Author), Tony Waldron (Author), Jiří Macháček (Author), Joachim Wahl (Author), Mark Pollard (Author), Greger Larson (Author), Adrian L Smith (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Helminth infections are among the World Health Organization's top neglected diseases with significant impact in many Less Economically Developed Countries. Despite no longer being endemic in Europe, the widespread presence of helminth eggs in archaeological deposits indicates that helminths rep...