Quantitative competitive PCR as a technique for exploring flea-Yersina pestis dynamics

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 552-560

  Engelthaler, D M ^a   Hinnebusch, B J ^a   Rittner, C M ^a   Gage, K L ^a  

^a Bureau of Epidemiology and Disease Control   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM COLONY; BLOOD; FEEDING; FLEA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; MIDGUT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; OROPSYLLA; OROPSYLLA MONTANA; SCIURIDAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SPERMOPHILUS; XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0034467674     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2000.62.552     Document Type: Article

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