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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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| Format: | Artigo |
| Language: | Inglês |
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3727414/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18453279 |
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