Yersinia pestis and the three plague pandemics

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 918-919

  Drancourt, Michel ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84908135813     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70877-1     Document Type: Letter

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