Phenotypic and molecular characterizations of Yersinia pestis isolates from Kazakhstan and adjacent regions

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-177

  Lowell, Jennifer L ^a,c   Zhansarina, Aigul ^b   Yockey, Brook ^a   Meka Mechenko, Tatyana ^b   Stybayeva, Gulnaz ^b   Atshabar, Bakyt ^b   Nekrassova, Larissa ^b   Tashmetov, Rinat ^b   Kenghebaeva, Kuralai ^b   Chu, May C ^a,d   Kosoy, Michael ^a   Antolin, Michael F ^c   Gage, Kenneth L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IRAN; KAZAKHSTAN; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; KYRGYZSTAN; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIBERIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 33846273508     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29059-0     Document Type: Article

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