Article
The recent emergence of plague: a process of felonious evolution.
Microbial ecology - 1 Apr 2004
Brubaker R R
Abstract excerpt
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic plague, evolved from closely related Yersinia pseudotuberculosis within the past 20,000 years, an event that corresponds to the end of the last ice age and distribution of Homo sapiens throughout the world. Y. pseudotuberculosis causes chronic but generally mild enteropathogenic infections whereas plague is the most devastating acute disease experienced by mankind....
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Environment
- Genome, Bacterial
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Plague
- Selection, Genetic
- Siphonaptera
- Yersinia pestis