Genotyping, orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and plague pandemics

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1585-1592

  Drancourt, Michel ^a   Roux, Véronique ^a   Dang, La Vu ^a   Tran Hung, Lam ^a   Castex, Dominique ^b   Chenal Francisque, Viviane ^c   Ogata, Hiroyuki ^d   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Crubézy, Eric ^e   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 4444274596     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1009.030933     Document Type: Article

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