Pestoides F, and Atypical Yersinia pestis Strain from the Former Soviet Union
Description:
Unlike the classical Yersinia pestis strains, members of an atypical group of Y. pestis from Central Asia, denominated Y. pestis subspecies caucasica (also known as one of several pestoides types), are distinguished by a number of characteristics including their ability to ferment rhamnose and melibiose, their lacking the small plasmid encoding the plasminogen activator (pla) and pesticin, and their exceptionally large variants of the virulence plasmid pMT (encoding murine toxin and capsular an…
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Date:
January 5, 2007
Creator:
Garcia, E.; Worsham, P.; Bearden, S.; Malfatti, S.; Lang, D.; Larimer, F. et al.
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