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Persistence of Yersinia pestis in Soil Under Natural Conditions

As part of a fatal human plague case investigation, we showed that the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, can survive for at least 24 days in contaminated soil under natural conditions. These results have implications for defining plague foci, persistence, transmission, and bioremediation after a na...

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Autores principales: Eisen, Rebecca J., Petersen, Jeannine M., Higgins, Charles L., Wong, David, Levy, Craig E., Mead, Paul S., Schriefer, Martin E., Griffith, Kevin S., Gage, Kenneth L., Ben Beard, C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18507908
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1406.080029