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- Dr Granville’s mummy died of tuberculosis. Augustus Granville described his Egyptian mummy to London’s Royal Society in 1825. The remains are of a woman who died in Thebes around 600 BC, aged about 50. From his own autopsy, Granville concluded that she had died of ovarian cancer.
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Oct 5, 2009 · Tuberculosis, not cancer, killed Dr Granville’s mummy. By Ed Yong. October 5, 2009. • 3 min read. Around 2600 years ago in Egypt, a woman called Irtyersenu died. She was mummified and buried at...
Sep 30, 2009 · In the case of the Granville mummy, M. tuberculosis complex DNA was detected in the lung tissue, gall bladder and tissues from possible pleura and diaphragm. The HPLC data found the greatest quantity of M. tuberculosis complex cell-wall mycolates in the lung tissue and lower amounts in the femurs.
- Helen D. Donoghue, Oona Y.-C. Lee, David E. Minnikin, Gurdyal S. Besra, John H. Taylor, Mark Spigelm...
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Tuberculosis in Dr Granville’s mummy: a molecular re-examination of the earliest known Egyptian mummy to be scientifically examined and given a medical diagnosis. Helen D. Donoghue1,*, Oona Y.-C. Lee2, David E. Minnikin2, Gurdyal S. Besra2, John H. Taylor3 and Mark Spigelman1,4.
- Helen D. Donoghue, Oona Y.-C. Lee, David E. Minnikin, Gurdyal S. Besra, John H. Taylor, Mark Spigelm...
- 2010
Jan 7, 2010 · Lung and femurs were positive for specific M. tuberculosis complex cell-wall mycolic acids, demonstrated by high-performance liquid chromatography of pyrenebutyric acid-pentafluorobenzyl mycolates. Therefore, tuberculosis is likely to have been the major cause of death of Irtyersenu.
- Helen D. Donoghue, Oona Y.-C. Lee, David E. Minnikin, Gurdyal S. Besra, John H. Taylor, Mark Spigelm...
- 2010
Detection of M. tuberculosis complex mycolic acid PBA–PFB derivatives by reverse-phase fluorescence HPLC, from the Granville mummy femur and lung samples, in comparison with a known standard...
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Sep 30, 2009 · Dr Granville’s mummy died of tuberculosis. Augustus Granville first described his Egyptian mummy to London’s Royal Society in 1825. The remains are of a woman, Irtyersenu, who died in Thebes...
