Strategy for Sensitive and Specific Detection of Yersinia pestis in Skeletons of the Black Death Pandemic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Seifert, Lisa ^a   Harbeck, Michaela ^b   Thomas, Astrid ^c   Hoke, Nadja ^a   Zöller, Lothar ^c   Wiechmann, Ingrid ^a   Grupe, Gisela ^a,b   Scholz, Holger C ^c   Riehm, Julia M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PLA GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BONE AND BONES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; PLAGUE; PLASMIDS; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84884276688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075742     Document Type: Article

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