Yersinia murine toxin is not required for early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by Oropsylla montana (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) or Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae)

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 160, Issue , 2014, Pages 2517-2525

  Johnson, Tammi L ^a   Joseph Hinnebusch, B ^b   Boegler, Karen A ^a   Graham, Christine B ^a   MacMillan, Katherine ^a   Montenieri, John A ^a   Bearden, Scott W ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YERSINIA MURINE TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY PHASE TRANSMISSION; FLEA; MIDGUT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OROPSYLLA MONTANA; PLAGUE; PLASMID; XENOPSYLLA; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSMISSION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; PLAGUE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIPHONAPTERA; VIRULENCE; XENOPSYLLA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84908529600     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.082123-0     Document Type: Article

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