Article
Genotyping of a homogeneous group of Yersinia pestis strains isolated in the United States.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2002
Huang Xiao-Zhe, Chu May C, Engelthaler Dave M, Lindler Luther E
Abstract excerpt
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of deadly plague, is considered a reemerging infectious disease and a significant biological terrorism threat. The present project focused on epidemiological investigation of the genetic variability of well-documented strains of Y. pestis from the United States by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis with...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Cats
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Dogs
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genotype
- Humans
- Plague
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Restriction Mapping
