Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: A genomic analysis

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 319-326

  Wagner, David M ^a   Klunk, Jennifer ^b,c   Harbeck, Michaela ^e   Devault, Alison ^b   Waglechner, Nicholas ^d   Sahl, Jason W ^a,f   Enk, Jacob ^b,c   Birdsell, Dawn N ^a   Kuch, Melanie ^b   Lumibao, Candice ^b,g   Poinar, Debi ^b   Pearson, Talima ^a   Fourment, Mathieu ^h   Golding, Brian ^c   Riehm, Julia M ⁱ   Earn, David J D ^c,d   DeWitte, Sharon ^j   Rouillard, Jean Marie ^k,l   Grupe, Gisela ^e,m   Wiechmann, Ingrid ^m   Bliska, James B ⁿ   Keim, Paul S ^a,f   Scholz, Holger C ⁱ   Holmes, Edward C ^h   Poinar, Hendrik ^b,c,d   more..

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

^f TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^h University of Sydney   (Australia)

ⁱ BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^l Department of Biological Sciences University of South Carolina ^*

^m UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁿ STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SCREENING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIDDLE AGES; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PLASMID; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RESERVOIR; TOOTH; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; TOOTH; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84896495554     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70323-2     Document Type: Article

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