An additional step in the transmission of Yersinia pestis

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-236

  Easterday, W Ryan ^a   Kausrud, Kyrre L ^a   Star, Bastiaan ^a   Heier, Lise ^a   Haley, Bradd J ^b   Ageyev, Vladimir ^c   Colwell, Rita R ^b,d   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gene reduction conservation; pathogen evolution; taphonomy; transmission; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIC; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; RODENT; SURVIVAL; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTION; FLEA; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; REVIEW; RODENT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PLAGUE; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

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

EID: 84855940235     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.105     Document Type: Review

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