Ancient mummy had lung infection, according to novel proteomics analysis
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, as revealed by a novel proteomics method that shows evidence of an active pathogenic infection in an ancient sample for the first time. The full report is published July 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.