Acute oral toxicity of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis to fleas: Implications for the evolution of vector-borne transmission of plague

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2658-2666

  Erickson, David L ^a,d   Waterfield, Nicholas R ^b   Vadyvaloo, Viveka ^a   Long, Daniel ^a   Fischer, Elizabeth R ^a   Ffrench constant, Richard ^c   Hinnebusch, B Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLEA; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLEAS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INSECT VECTORS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; YERSINIA INFECTIONS; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

HEXAPODA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; RATTUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34848890360     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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