Yersinia pestis - Etiologic agent of plague

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-66

  Perry, Robert D ^a   Fetherston, Jacqueline D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; REVIEW; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0031029062     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.10.1.35     Document Type: Review

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