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Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is a recently emerged clone of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Nov 1999
Achtman M, Zurth K, Morelli G, Torrea G, Guiyoule A, Carniel E
Abstract excerpt
Plague, one of the most devastating diseases of human history, is caused by Yersinia pestis. In this study, we analyzed the population genetic structure of Y. pestis and the two other pathogenic Yersinia species, Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y. enterocolitica. Fragments of five housekeeping genes and a gene involved in the synthesis of lipopolysaccharide were sequenced from 36 strains representing the global...
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