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Yersinia pestis strains of ancient phylogenetic branch 0.ANT are widely spread in the high-mountain plague foci of Kyrgyzstan.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Eroshenko Galina A, Nosov Nikita Yu, Krasnov Yaroslav M, Oglodin Yevgeny G, Kukleva Lyubov M, Guseva Natalia P, Kuznetsov Alexander A, Abdikarimov Sabyrzhan T, Dzhaparova Aigul K, Kutyrev Vladimir V
Abstract excerpt
Fifty six Yersinia pestis strains, isolated over the period of more than 50 years in three high-mountain foci of Kyrgyzstan (Tien Shan, Alai, and Talas), have been characterized by means of PCR and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing methods. Seven of these strains were also characterized by means of whole genome sequencing and genome-wide SNP phylogenetic analysis. It was found that forty two strains...
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