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Evidence of tungiasis in pre-hispanic America

Maco, V.; Tantaleán, M.; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011)

Ancient parasites of the genus Tunga originated in America and, during the fi rst half of the 19th century, were transported to the Eastern Hemisphere on transatlantic voyages. Although they were first documented by Spanish ...
Five hundred years of mercury exposure and adaptation.

Lombardi, Guido; Lanzirotti, Antonio; Qualls, Clifford; Socola, Francisco; Ali, Abdul-Mehdi; Appenzeller, Otto (Hindawi, 2012)

Mercury is added to the biosphere by anthropogenic activities raising the question of whether changes in the human chromatin, induced by mercury, in a parental generation could allow adaptation of their descendants to ...