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A North American Yersinia pestis draft genome sequence: SNPs and phylogenetic analysis.
PloS one - 21 Feb 2007
Touchman Jeffrey W, Wagner David M, Hao Jicheng, Mastrian Stephen D, Shah Maulik K, Vogler Amy J, Allender Christopher J, Clark Erin A, Benitez Debbie S, Youngkin David J, Girard Jessica M, Auerbach Raymond K, Beckstrom-Sternberg Stephen M, Keim Paul
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is responsible for some of the greatest epidemic scourges of mankind. It is widespread in the western United States, although it has only been present there for just over 100 years. As a result, there has been very little time for diversity to accumulate in this region. Much of the diversity that has been detected among North American isolates is at loci...
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