<i>Yersinia pestis</i>Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients

Drancourt, Michel; Signoli, Michel; Vu Dang, La; Bizot, Bruno; Roux, Véronique; Tzortzis, Stéfan; Raoult, Didier

doi:10.3201/eid1302.060197

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Yersinia pestisOrientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Feb 1, 2007

Authors:

Michel Drancourt

Michel Signoli

La Vu Dang

Abstract

Yersinia pestis DNA was recently detected in human remains from 2 ancient plague pandemics in France and Germany. We have now sequenced Y pestis glpD gene in such remains, showing a 93-bp deletion specific for biotype Orientalis. These data show that only Orientalis type caused the 3 plague pandemic...

Subject

Yersinia pestis

Plague (disease)

Pandemic

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