Biofilm formation is not required for early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2216-2225

  Vetter, Sara M ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^a   Schotthoefer, Anna M ^a   Montenieri, John A ^a   Holmes, Jennifer L ^a   Bobrov, Alexander G ^b   Bearden, Scott W ^a   Perry, Robert D ^b   Gage, Kenneth L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWISS WEBSTER MOUSE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; FLEAS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; PLAGUE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; YERSINIA PESTIS; SIPHONAPTERA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MUS; OROPSYLLA MONTANA; RATTUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

EID: 77954618235     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.037952-0     Document Type: Article

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