Yersinial F1 antigen and the cause of Black Death

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 484-485

  Pusch, Carsten M ^a,b   Rahalison, Lila ^c   Blin, Nikolaus ^a   Nicholson, Graeme J ^b   Czarnetzki, Alfred ^a  

^a Inst of Anthropol and Hum Genet   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BUBONIC PLAGUE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIOSIS;

EID: 4043171382     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(04)01099-0     Document Type: Letter

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