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Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and plague pandemics.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2004
Drancourt Michel, Roux Véronique, Dang La Vu, Tran-Hung Lam, Castex Dominique, Chenal-Francisque Viviane, Ogata Hiroyuki, Fournier Pierre-Edouard, Crubézy Eric, Raoult Didier
Abstract excerpt
Three pandemics have been attributed to plague in the last 1,500 years. Yersinia pestis caused the third, and its DNA was found in human remains from the second. The Antiqua biovar of Y. pestis may have caused the first pandemic; the other two biovars, Medievalis and Orientalis, may have caused the second and third pandemics, respectively. To test this hypothesis, we designed an original genotyping system based...
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