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[Characteristics of plague pathogen mutants, differing by pigment sorption signs].
Molekuliarnaia genetika, mikrobiologiia i virusologiia - 1 Jan 2003
Podladchikova O N, Ivanova V S, Eremenko N S, Lebedeva S A
Abstract excerpt
Wild-type strains of plague agent Yersinia pestis are characterized by a pigmentation phenotype (Pgm+), which includes several traits: an ability of cells to adsorb pigments (Hms+), an ability to produce siderophore yersiniabactin (Ybt+) and an ability to cause lethal infections in laboratory animals (Vir+) after subcutaneous injections. All these traits are encoded in the chromosomal pgm-locus, which gets...
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