Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is a recently emerged clone of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 14043-14048

  Achtman, Mark ^a   Zurth, Kerstin ^a   Morelli, Giovanna ^a   Torrea, Gabriela ^b   Guiyoule, Annie ^b   Carniel, Elisabeth ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Microevolution; Molecular epidemiology; Multilocus sequence typing; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033598784     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.24.14043     Document Type: Article

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