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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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Published in:Nat Commun
Main Authors: Zimbler, Daniel L., Schroeder, Jay A., Eddy, Justin L., Lathem, Wyndham W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4491175/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123398
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8487
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