Yersinia pestis strains of ancient phylogenetic branch 0.ANT are widely spread in the high-mountain plague foci of Kyrgyzstan.

Fifty six Yersinia pestis strains, isolated over the period of more than 50 years in three high-mountain foci of Kyrgyzstan (Tien Shan, Alai, and Talas), have been characterized by means of PCR and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing methods. Seven of these strains were also characterized by...

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Main Authors: Galina A Eroshenko, Nikita Yu Nosov, Yaroslav M Krasnov, Yevgeny G Oglodin, Lyubov M Kukleva, Natalia P Guseva, Alexander A Kuznetsov, Sabyrzhan T Abdikarimov, Aigul K Dzhaparova, Vladimir V Kutyrev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5658180?pdf=render