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 4 (2008), Issue 3 (March)

1. Biogeography of diseases: a framework for analysis.
   Naturwissenschaften. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Current challenges in the development of vaccines for pneumonic plague.
   Expert Rev Vaccines, 7(2): 209-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Activation of pro-matrix metalloproteinase-9 and degradation of gelatin by the surface protease PgtE of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.
   Int J Med Microbiol, 298(3): 263-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Neutralization of Yersinia pestis-mediated macrophage cytotoxicity by anti-LcrV antibodies and its correlation with protective immunity in a mouse model of bubonic plague.
   Vaccine, 26(13): 1616-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Relative immunogenicity and protection potential of candidate Yersinia Pestis antigens against lethal mucosal plague challenge in Balb/C mice.
   Vaccine, 26(13): 1664-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Structural characterization of the Yersinia pestis type III secretion system needle protein YscF in complex with its heterodimeric chaperone YscE/YscG.
   J Mol Biol, 377(3): 819-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Capsular antigen fraction 1 and Pla modulate the susceptibility of Yersinia pestis to pulmonary antimicrobial peptides such as cathelicidin.
   Infect Immun, 76(4): 1456-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Braun lipoprotein (Lpp) contributes to virulence of yersiniae: potential role of Lpp in inducing bubonic and pneumonic plague.
   Infect Immun, 76(4): 1390-409. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Technical note: A rapid diagnostic test detects plague in ancient human remains: An example of the interaction between archeological and biological approaches (southeastern France, 16th-18th centuries).
   Am J Phys Anthropol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Collaboration through clinical integration.
    Nurs Adm Q, 32(2): 109-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. HLA haplotype map of river valley populations with hemochromatosis traced through five centuries in Central Sweden.
    Eur J Haematol. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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