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Yersinia pestis

Collection sites, home-pages

Fact sheets, consumer guides, general information

• General information on plague from CDC
• Fact sheet on Yersinia (Southern Illinois Uni)
• Plague in present-day Africa (Johannisburg Mail&Guardian)
• The life cycle of the Yersinia pestis (Pictures of Health)
• Traveller's health information on plague  (CDC)
• General information on plague from CDC
• Y. pestis in bioterrorism (Texas Dept. Health)
• How does plague kill? (Newswise) and more about this topic (UK CHandler Med. Center News)
• Plague in cats and dogs (PetEducation)

Lectures

• Excellent course on Y. pestis (NR Chamberlain)
• Lecture notes on pathogenic bacteria: Yersinia  (uni Arizona)
• Brief overview of Y. pestis pathogenicity (Uni Georgia School of Vet. Med.)

Scientific papers

• Yersiniae: list of bacterial names (JP Euzeby)
• Laboratory safety sheet (Canadian Lab. Center Dis. Contr)
• Biosafety information (health Canada)
• Prevention of plague (MMWR)

Scientific links

• The genome sequencing project of Y. pestis (Sanger)
• Scientist identify new genes critical to transmission of bubonic plague (NIAID News)
• Plague vaccine (MMWR Weekly, CDC)
• Human plague in India 1994 (MMWR)
• Laboratory protocol for the identification of Y. pestis (CDC)
• Case definition of plague (CDC)

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Last modified: 10 Feb 2003

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