Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue JANUARY2016, 2016, Pages

  Bos, Kirsten I ^a,b   Herbig, Alexander ^a,b   Sahl, Jason ^c   Waglechner, Nicholas ^d   Fourment, Mathieu ^e,i,j   Forrest, Stephen A ^a   Klunk, Jennifer ^f,g   Schuenemann, Verena J ^a   Poinar, Debi ^f   Kuch, Melanie ^f   Golding, G Brian ^g   Dutour, Olivier ^h   Keim, Paul ^c   Wagner, David M ^c   Holmes, Edward C ^e,i,j   Krause, Johannes ^a,b   Poinar, Hendrik N ^d,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e University of Sydney   (Australia)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EUROPE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84961267046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/elife.12994     Document Type: Article

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