A Deadly Path: Bacterial Spread During Bubonic Plague

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 239-241

  Gonzalez, Rodrigo J ^a,b   Miller, Virginia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubonic plague; Dissemination; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BUBONIC PLAGUE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; YERSINIA INFECTION; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LYMPH NODES; PLAGUE; SKIN; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84961204836     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.01.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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