Fine-scale identification of the most likely source of a human plague infection

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1623-1625

  Colman, Rebecca E ^a   Vogler, Amy J ^a   Lowell, Jennifer L ^b   Gage, Kenneth L ^b   Morway, Christina ^b   Reynolds, Pamela J ^c   Ettestad, Paul ^c   Keim, Paul ^a   Kosoy, Michael Y ^b   Wagner, David M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; NORTH AMERICA; PLAGUE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA INFECTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTATION; NEW MEXICO; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 70349976991     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1510.090188     Document Type: Article

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