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Yersinia pestis Biofilm in the Flea Vector and Its Role in the Transmission of Plague

Transmission by fleabite is a relatively recent evolutionary adaptation of Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of bubonic plague. To produce a transmissible infection, Y. pestis grows as an attached biofilm in the foregut of the flea vector. Biofilm formation both in the flea foregut and in vitro i...

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Auteurs principaux: Hinnebusch, B. J., Erickson, D. L.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: 2008
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3727414/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18453279
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