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Volume 32, Number 1—January 2026

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Nocardia and the Death of Raphael (1520)

Philippe CharlierComments to Author , Geneviève Héry-Arnaud, Kira Kofoed, and Jean Armengaud
Author affiliation: Laboratory Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology, UFR of Health Sciences Simone Veil, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/ Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France (P. Charlier); University Hospital R. Poincaré (AP-HP), Garches, France (P. Charlier); Brest University Hospital, Brest, France (G. Héry-Arnaud); Brest University, INSERM, EFS, UMR 1078 Inserm Unit UMR1078 Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Brest (G. Héry-Arnaud); Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (Kira Kofoed); Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, INRAE, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France (J. Armengaud)

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Figure 2

General view of samples from Raphael’s grave and cadaver analyzed for investigation of possible Nocardia infection. Ingres Museum, Montauban, France. Photograph by Philippe Charlier.

Figure 2. General view of samples from Raphael’s grave and cadaver analyzed for investigation of possible Nocardia infection. Ingres Museum, Montauban, France. Photograph by Philippe Charlier.

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