Plague Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Plague, including details on bubonic plague, yersinia pestis, infection, types, treatment.

Volume 3 (2007), Issue 1 (January)

1. Cost effective real time RT-PCR to screen for Dengue followed by rapid single-tube multiplex RT-PCR for serotyping of the virus.
   J Clin Microbiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Identification of outer membrane proteins of Yersinia pestis through biotinylation.
   J Microbiol Methods, 68(1): 26-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Experimental infection of ground squirrels (Citellus pygmaeus Pallas) with Yersinia pestis during hibernation.
   J Infect, 54(2): 198-203. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Oral inoculation with Type III secretion mutants of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis provides protection from oral, intraperitoneal, or intranasal challenge with virulent Yersinia.
   Vaccine, 25(8): 1526-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Developing global climate anomalies suggest potential disease risks for 2006-2007.
   Int J Health Geogr, 5: 60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Vaccination with live Yersinia pestis primes CD4 and CD8 T cells that synergistically protect against lethal pulmonary Y. pestis infection.
   Infect Immun, 75(2): 878-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Delayed inflammatory response to primary pneumonic plague occurs in both outbred and inbred mice.
   Infect Immun, 75(2): 697-705. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Statistical analysis of the dynamics of antibody loss to a disease-causing agent: plague in natural populations of great gerbils as an example.
   J R Soc Interface, 4(12): 57-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. A plasminogen-activating protease specifically controls the development of primary pneumonic plague.
   Science, 315(5811): 509-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Venous thromboembolism in trauma: an update for the intensive care unit practitioner.
    J Intensive Care Med, 22(1): 26-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Coral disease diagnostics: what's between a plague and a band?
    Appl Environ Microbiol, 73(3): 981-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Neurovascular proteases in brain injury, hemorrhage and remodeling after stroke.
    Stroke, 38(2): 748-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. A horizontally acquired filamentous phage contributes to the pathogenicity of the plague bacillus.
    Mol Microbiol, 63(4): 1145-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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