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Taxonomy of Yersinia pestis.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2016
Qi Zhizhen, Cui Yujun, Zhang Qingwen, Yang Ruifu
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This chapter summarized the taxonomy and typing works of Yersinia pestis since it's firstly identified in Hong Kong in 1894. Phenotyping methods that based on phenotypic characteristics, including biotyping, serotyping, antibiogram analysis, bacteriocin typing, phage typing, and plasmid typing, were firstly applied in classification of Y. pestis in subspecies level. And then, with the advancement of molecular...
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