helen m. werner university of wisconsin-milwaukee 80 th annual meeting of the society for american...
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Molecular Identification of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in the Milwaukee County
Institution Grounds Cemetery
Helen M. WernerUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, 15-19 April 2015.
Symposium: People that no one had use for, had nothing to give to, no place to offer: The Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Poor Farm Cemetery
Ziehl-Neelsen stain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from chest material (Donoghue 2004)
Spinal pathology from an eighteenth century Hungarian with Pott’s disease (Donoghue 2004)
Lot number 1009: Lesion and IS6110 positive
Sample Characteristics
Sex Age Lesions
Male 71 Young Adult 17 No 77
Female 14 Middle Age 53 Yes 9
Old Age 15
First Sodium Boric Acid Gel
Second Sodium Boric Acid Gel
Sample Burial Number IS61101 3039 Yes2 2003 Yes3 5035 No4 5207 No5 7230 No6 9263 Yes7 1009 Yes9 1012 No24 2006 No
Samples Positive for Osteological Lesions
Samples Positive for is6110Sample Burial Number Lesions10 1013 No14 1017 No21 1035 No22 1044 No35 2038 No82 9291 No1 3039 Yes2 2003 Yes6 9263 Yes7 1009 Yes
Summary of is6110 Positive Samples
Sex Age Lesions Male 10 Young Adult 4 No 7
Female 1 Middle Age 6 Yes 4 Old Age 1
Les
ion
s IS6110
No Yes
No 70 7 Yes 5 4
IS61
10 Predicted Values
No Yes
No 75 0 Yes 11 0
Raw Data
Logistic Regression Predicted Values
Future Hypotheses
Outside of MCIG
IS6110 in Historical cemeteries
IS6110 in pre-
historical cemeteries
Within MCIG
Other bacterial infections
Thank you
Dr. Patricia RichardsDr. Joseph P GrayDr. Trudy Turner
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Laboratory
Carrie JonesEmily EpsteinJessica SkinnerRachel McTavishZachary Stencil