Molecular insights into the history of plague

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 105-109

  Drancourt, Michel ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Paleomicrobiology; Plague; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOTYPE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOOTH PULP; YERSINIA PESTIS;

DENTAL PULP; DNA, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; PALEODONTOLOGY; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0036159550     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01515-5     Document Type: Review

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