Transmission shifts underlie variability in population responses to Yersinia pestis infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Buhnerkempe, Michael G ^a,b   Eisen, Rebecca J ^b   Goodell, Brandon ^a,c   Gage, Kenneth L ^b   Antolin, Michael F ^a   Webb, Colleen T ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FLEA; HOST RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PLAGUE; POPULATION SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLAGUE; SIPHONAPTERA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 79960745541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022498     Document Type: Article

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