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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, "San Giovanni di Dio" Hospital, Gorizia, Italy. Electronic address: antonioperciaccante@libero.it.
• ² AAS 2 Bassa Friulana-Isontina, Gorizia, Italy.
• ³ Section of Medical and Forensic Anthropology (UVSQ & Paris-Descartes University EA 4569), Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; CASH & IPES, Nanterre, France.
• ⁴ New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, 361 Big Horne Ridge Dr. NE, Albuquerque, NM, USA; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain, Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
• ⁵ Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, The University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom; Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, Legal Medicine Section, University of Turin, Corso Galileo Galilei, 22, 10126, Turin, Italy; UMR 7268, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Secteur Nord Batiment A - CS80011 Bd Pierre Dramard, 13344 Marseille Cedex 15, France.