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Early emergence of Yersinia pestis as a severe respiratory pathogen

Yersinia pestis causes the fatal respiratory disease pneumonic plague. Y. pestis recently evolved from the gastrointestinal pathogen Y. pseudotuberculosis; however, it is not known at what point Y. pestis gained the ability to induce a fulminant pneumonia. Here we show that the acquisition of a sing...

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Autores principales: Zimbler, Daniel L., Schroeder, Jay A., Eddy, Justin L., Lathem, Wyndham W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4491175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8487