Philippe Charlier, Anaïs Augias, Raphaël Weil, Françoise Bouchet, Joël Poupon, Maria Speranta Popescu, Philippe Decloquement, Saïd Azza, Emmanouil Angelakis, Pascale Richardin, Philippe Colson, Gregory Dubourg, Matthieu Million, Didier Raoult
The cause of death of Saint-Louis is not known, but recent findings indicated that he presented scurvy and inflammatory jaw disease, which has been associated with infection by oral commensals. Here, we have the exceptional opportunity to analyze the relics of the viscera of King Saint-Louis. A 4.3 g sample from the viscera relics of King Saint-Louis conserved in Versailles' cathedral was subjected to radiocarbon dating, electronic and optic microscopy, and elementary, palynological, molecular, proteomics and microbiological analyses including specific PCR and v3v4 16 S rRNA gene amplification prior to large-scale sequencing using an Illumina MiSeq instrument...
October 24, 2023: Microbial Pathogenesis