Was the Black Death yersinial plague?

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 327-328

  Wood, James ^a   DeWitte Aviña, Sharon ^a   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; BUBONIC PLAGUE; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; YERSINIA PESTIS; EUROPE; GENETICS; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0347510563     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00651-0     Document Type: Letter

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