Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients

Yersinia pestis DNA was recently detected in human remains from 2 ancient plague pandemics in France and Germany. We have now sequenced Y. pestis glpD gene in such remains, showing a 93-bp deletion specific for biotype Orientalis. These data show that only Orientalis type caused the 3 plague pandemi...

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Autores principales: Drancourt, Michel, Signoli, Michel, Dang, La Vu, Bizot, Bruno, Roux, Véronique, Tzortzis, Stéfan, Raoult, Didier
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17479906
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1302.060197
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author Drancourt, Michel
Signoli, Michel
Dang, La Vu
Bizot, Bruno
Roux, Véronique
Tzortzis, Stéfan
Raoult, Didier
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description Yersinia pestis DNA was recently detected in human remains from 2 ancient plague pandemics in France and Germany. We have now sequenced Y. pestis glpD gene in such remains, showing a 93-bp deletion specific for biotype Orientalis. These data show that only Orientalis type caused the 3 plague pandemics.
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spelling pubmed-27258622009-09-10 Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients Drancourt, Michel Signoli, Michel Dang, La Vu Bizot, Bruno Roux, Véronique Tzortzis, Stéfan Raoult, Didier Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Yersinia pestis DNA was recently detected in human remains from 2 ancient plague pandemics in France and Germany. We have now sequenced Y. pestis glpD gene in such remains, showing a 93-bp deletion specific for biotype Orientalis. These data show that only Orientalis type caused the 3 plague pandemics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2725862/ /pubmed/17479906 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1302.060197 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Drancourt, Michel
Signoli, Michel
Dang, La Vu
Bizot, Bruno
Roux, Véronique
Tzortzis, Stéfan
Raoult, Didier
Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients
title Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients
title_full Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients
title_fullStr Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients
title_full_unstemmed Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients
title_short Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients
title_sort yersinia pestis orientalis in remains of ancient plague patients
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17479906
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1302.060197
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