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SUBMITTER: Cui Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6962365 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200115 1
Yersinia pestis is transmitted from fleas to rodents when the bacterium develops an extensive biofilm in the foregut of a flea, starving it into a feeding frenzy, or, alternatively, during a brief period directly after feeding on a bacteremic host. These two transmission modes are in a trade-off regulated by the amount of biofilm produced by the bacterium. Here by investigating 446 global isolated Y. pestis genomes, including 78 newly sequenced isolates sampled over 40 years from a plague focus ...[more]