Multiple antimicrobial resistance in plague: an emerging public health risk.

Antimicrobial resistance in Yersinia pestis is rare, yet constitutes a significant international public health and biodefense threat. In 1995, the first multidrug resistant (MDR) isolate of Y. pestis (strain IP275) was identified, and was shown to contain a self-transmissible plasmid (pIP1202) that...

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Main Authors: Timothy J Welch, W Florian Fricke, Patrick F McDermott, David G White, Marie-Laure Rosso, David A Rasko, Mark K Mammel, Mark Eppinger, M J Rosovitz, David Wagner, Lila Rahalison, J Eugene Leclerc, Jeffrey M Hinshaw, Luther E Lindler, Thomas A Cebula, Elisabeth Carniel, Jacques Ravel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1819562?pdf=render