@article{96229,
  keywords = {Craniofacial pathology, Lesser antilles, Mycobacterium leprae, Rhinomaxillary syndrome},
  author = {Nelson G and Dodrill T and Fitzpatrick S},
  title = {A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean.},
  abstract = {<p><strong>OBJECTIVE: </strong>To document and differentially diagnose facial pathology found in an isolated skull from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, southeastern Caribbean. To directly date this individual using radiocarbon dating.</p>

<p><strong>MATERIALS: </strong>Isolated skull recovered from Petite Mustique Island.</p>

<p><strong>METHODS: </strong>Describe facial pathology occurring in this individual and compare with known diseases or disease processes that impact the craniofacial complex.</p>

<p><strong>RESULTS: </strong>Features of the rhinomaxillary syndrome are present, indicating a diagnosis of leprosy. Dating places the time of death to the late 18th or early 19th centuries.</p>

<p><strong>CONCLUSIONS: </strong>Analysis of the rhinomaxillary syndrome produces a diagnosis of early-stage leprosy in an individual that correlates with the apparent attempt to locate a leprosarium on Petite Mustique Island in the first decade of the 19th century.</p>

<p><strong>SIGNIFICANCE: </strong>Location and time corroborate historical records of at least one attempt to locate a leprosarium on Petite Mustique Island. Only directly dated individual with leprosy in the western hemisphere and possibly the earliest yet recorded.</p>

<p><strong>LIMITATIONS: </strong>This is an isolated find that is archaeologically unprovenienced.</p>

<p><strong>SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH: </strong>Professional archaeological survey of Petite Mustique.</p>
},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {International journal of paleopathology},
  volume = {36},
  pages = {7-13},
  month = {11/2021},
  issn = {1879-9825},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879981721000826?via%3Dihub},
  doi = {10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.10.004},
  language = {eng},
}