Article
Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague.
Nature - 4 Oct 2001
Parkhill J, Wren B W, Thomson N R, Titball R W, Holden M T, Prentice M B, Sebaihia M, James K D, Churcher C, Mungall K L, Baker S, Basham D, Bentley S D, Brooks K, Cerdeño-Tárraga A M, Chillingworth T, Cronin A, Davies R M, Davis P, Dougan G, Feltwell T, Hamlin N, Holroyd S, Jagels K, Karlyshev A V, Leather S, Moule S, Oyston P C, Quail M, Rutherford K, Simmonds M, Skelton J, Stevens K, Whitehead S, Barrell B G
Abstract excerpt
The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of the systemic invasive infectious disease classically referred to as plague, and has been responsible for three human pandemics: the Justinian plague (sixth to eighth centuries), the Black Death (fourteenth to nineteenth centuries) and modern plague (nineteenth century to the present day). The recent identification of strains resistant to...
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