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how many strains of yesirinia pestis are there

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30-06-2013 7:18pm

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carlowplayer

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just wondering how many strains of yesirinia pestis are there?

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#2 30-06-2013 11:49pm
Capt'n Midnight

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Looks like the different types of plague don't correlate to different strains.
http://www.cdc.gov/plague/symptoms/index.html

Plague symptoms depend on how the patient was exposed to the plague bacteria. Plague can take different clinical forms, but the most common are bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic.

Might find more info here on the different strains.
NATURALHISTORY OFPLAGUE:Perspectives from
Morethan a Century of Research

www.nyu.edu/projects/mediamosaic/essays/epi/EpiDoc3.pdf

Other significant findings include those on the evolution
ofY.pestis;geographic variation among plague strains

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