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Personal data
Olga Spekker
name Olga Spekker
year of birth 1987
name of institution
doctoral school
SzTE Doctoral School of Biology (Supervisor)
the share of work in the different doctoral schools. SzTE Doctoral School of Biology 100%
Contact details
E-mail address olga.spekkergmail.com
Academic title
scientific degree, title Ph.D.
year degree was obtained 2018
discipline to which degree belongs biology
institution granting the degree University of Szeged
Employment
2018 - University of Szeged
egyetemi kutató
Thesis topic supervisor
number of doctoral students supervised until now 1
number of students who fulfilled course requirements 0
students who obtained their degrees:
present PhD students:
Ágota Madai (PhD) (2026/08)  USz-DSB
  Thesis topic proposals
Research
research area Palaeopathological and palaeoepidemiological study of mycobacterial infections (tuberculosis and leprosy) in past human populations
research field in which current research is conducted biology
Publications
2024

Spekker Olga, Kiss P. Attila, Kis Luca, Király Kitty, Varga Sándor, Marcsik Antónia, Schütz Oszkár, Török Tibor, Hunt David R., Tihanyi Balázs: White plague among the “forgotten people” from the Barbaricum of the Carpathian Basin–Cases with tuberculosis from the Sarmatian-period (3rd–4th centuries CE) archaeological site of Hódmezővásárhely–Kenyere-ér, Bereczki-tanya (Hungary), PLOS ONE 19: (1) e0294762
type of document: Journal paper/Article
language: English
URL 
2023

Spekker Olga, Tihanyi Balázs, Kis Luca, Madai Ágota, Pálfi György, Csuvár-Andrási Réka, Wicker Erika, Szalontai Csaba, Samu Levente, Koncz István, Marcsik Antónia, Molnár Erika: Leprosy: The age-old companion of humans – Re-evaluation and comparative analysis of Avar-period cases with Hansen's disease from the Danube-Tisza Interfluve, Hungary, TUBERCULOSIS 142: 102393
type of document: Journal paper/Article
language: English
URL 
2023

Spekker Olga, Hunt David R., Király Kitty, Kis Luca, Madai Ágota, Szalontai Csaba, Molnár Erika, Pálfi György: Lumbosacral tuberculosis, a rare manifestation of Pott's disease – How identified human skeletons from the pre-antibiotic era can be used as reference cases to establish a palaeopathological diagnosis of tuberculosis, TUBERCULOSIS 138: 102287
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 2
language: English
URL 
2023

Spekker Olga, Kis Luca, Lukács Nikoletta, Patyi Eszter, Tihanyi Balázs: The first probable case with tuberculous meningitis from the Hun period of the Carpathian Basin – How diagnostics development can contribute to increase knowledge and understanding of the spatio-temporal distribution of tuberculosis in the past, TUBERCULOSIS 143: 102372
type of document: Journal paper/Review paper
language: English
URL 
2022

Spekker Olga, Váradi Orsolya Anna, Szekeres András, Jäger Heidi Yoko, Zink Albert, Berner Margit, Pany-Kucera Doris, Strondl Liesa, Klostermann Paul, Samu Levente, Király Kitty, Bereczki Zsolt, Molnár Erika, Pálfi György, Tihanyi Balázs: A rare case of calvarial tuberculosis from the Avar Age (8th century CE) cemetery of Kaba–Bitózug (Hajdú-Bihar county, Hungary) – Pathogenesis and differential diagnostic aspects, TUBERCULOSIS 135: 102226
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 6
language: English
URL 
2022

Spekker Olga, David R. Hunt, William Berthon, Molnár Erika, Pálfi György: Insights into the diagnostic efficacy and macroscopic appearance of endocranial bony changes indicative of tuberculous meningitis: Three example cases from the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY 32: (2) pp. 444-456.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 7
language: English
URL 
2021

Spekker Olga, David R. Hunt, William Berthon, Paja László, Molnár Erika, Pálfi György, Michael Schultz: Tracking down the White Plague. Chapter three: Revision of endocranial abnormally pronounced digital impressions as paleopathological diagnostic criteria for tuberculous meningitis., PLOS ONE 16: (3) e0249020
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 4
language: English
URL 
2020

Spekker Olga, Hunt David R., Paja László, Molnár Erika, Pálfi György, Schultz Michael: Tracking down the White Plague. The skeletal evidence of tuberculous meningitis in the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection, PLOS ONE 15: (3) e0230418
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 18
language: English
URL 
2020

Spekker Olga, Michael Schultz, Paja László, Váradi Orsolya Anna, Molnár Erika, Pálfi György, David R. Hunt: Tracking down the White Plaque. Chapter two: The role of endocranial abnormal blood vessel impressions and periosteal appositions in the paleopathological diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis, PLOS ONE 15: (9) e0238444
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 14
language: English
URL 
2018

Spekker Olga, Hunt David R, Váradi Orsolya Anna, Berthon William, Molnár Erika, Pálfi György: Rare manifestations of spinal tuberculosis in the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY 28: (3) pp. 343-353.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 18
language: English
URL 
Number of independent citations to these publications:69 
Scientometric data
list of publications and citations
number of scientific publications that meet accreditation criteria:
95
number of scientific publications:
92
monographs and professional books:
0
monographs/books in which chapters/sections were contributed:
0 
number of independent citations to scientific publications and creative works:
141
Supervision
thesis supervisor Erika Molnár
co-supervisor György Pálfi
one supervisor or with co-supervisor co-supervisor
degree PhD
year in which degree was obtained 2018
diszertáció Main findings in the thesis (in Hungarian)Main findings in the thesis (in English)The thesis
data of the public discussion defense


2024. IV. 17.
ODT ülés
Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).

 
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