Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and Plague Pandemics

Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and Plague Pandemics

Three pandemics have been attributed to plague in the last 1,500 years. Yersinia pestis caused the third, and its DNA was found in human remains from the second. The Antiqua biovar of Y. pestis may have caused the first pandemic; the other two biovars, Medievalis and Orientalis, may have caused the...

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Main Authors: Michel Drancourt, Véronique Roux, La Vu Dang, Lam Tran-Hung, Dominique Castex, Viviane Chenal-Francisque, Hiroyuki Ogata, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Eric Crubézy, Didier Raoult
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-09-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Yersinia pestis
genotyping
historical plague
research
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/9/03-0933_article

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