Long-term persistence of virulent Yersinia pestis in soil

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2865-2871

  Ayyadurai, Saravanan ^a   Houhamdi, Linda ^a   Lepidi, Hubert ^a   Nappez, Claude ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Drancourt, Michel ^a,a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; GENE PRODUCT; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN CAF1; PROTEIN PLA; PROTEIN URED; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA;

AGAR MEDIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL INOCULATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; STAINING; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY;

MUS; PSEUDOMONAS; RODENTIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 53449087395     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/016154-0     Document Type: Article

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