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Transcriptomic profiling of the digestive tract of the rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, following blood feeding and infection with Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is a highly lethal pathogen transmitted by the bite of infected fleas. Once ingested by a flea, Y. pestis establish a replicative niche in the gut and produce a biofilm that promotes foregut colonization and transmission. The rat flea Xenopsylla cheopi...

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Autores principales: Bland, David M., Martens, Craig A., Virtaneva, Kimmo, Kanakabandi, Kishore, Long, Dan, Rosenke, Rebecca, Saturday, Greg A., Hoyt, Forrest H., Bruno, Daniel P., Ribeiro, José M., Hinnebusch, B. Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7526888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32946437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008688