Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bos, Kirsten I ^a,b   Stevens, Philip ^a   Nieselt, Kay ^a   Poinar, Hendrik N ^c,d   DeWitte, Sharon N ^e   Krause, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAGUE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84870380966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049803     Document Type: Article

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