Article
Rapid, specific detection and quantification of <i>Yersinia pestis</i> using a species-specific SNP in the ferric uptake regulator gene ( <i>fur</i> MAMA)
2018-06-09
Abstract excerpt
Yersinia pestis , the causative agent of plague, is responsible for about 700 human cases of bubonic and pneumonic plague each year. Yet the disease is far more prevalent within rodent reservoirs than in humans. One of the main means of outbreak prevention is extensive wildlife surveillance, where accurate and rapid detection is essential to prevent spillover into the human population from which, it may otherwise...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8b5f4154-bdaa-5b6a-85ca-9d97c442d789
- DOI
- 10.1101/341321
