A decade of plague in Mahajanga, Madagascar: Insights into the global maritime spread of pandemic plague

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vogler, Amy J ^a   Chan, Fabien ^b   Nottingham, Roxanne ^a   Andersen, Genevieve ^a   Drees, Kevin ^a   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen M ^a,c   Wagner, David M ^a   Chanteau, Suzanne ^b,d   Keim, Paul ^a,c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; MADAGASCAR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANDEMIC; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874625332     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00623-12     Document Type: Article

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