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 6 (June)

1. The history of avian influenza.
   Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Experimental evidence for negative selection in the evolution of a Yersinia pestis pseudogene.
   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(23): 8097-101. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. 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, 136(3): 361-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Virulence blockers as alternatives to antibiotics: type III secretion inhibitors against Gram-negative bacteria.
   J Intern Med, 264(1): 17-29. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Oropsylla hirsuta (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) Can Support Plague Epizootics in Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) by Early-Phase Transmission of Yersinia pestis.
   Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, 8(3): 359-68. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. No Evidence of Deer Mouse Involvement in Plague (Yersinia pestis) Epizootics in Prairie Dogs.
   Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, 8(3): 331-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. The clinical nurse leader: a catalyst for improving quality and patient safety.
   J Nurs Manag, 16(5): 614-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Risk Communication Planning for the Aftermath of a Plague Bioattack.
   Risk Anal. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Analysis of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) by liquid chromatography with negative-ion atmospheric pressure photoionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC/NI-APPI/MS/MS): application to house dust.
   Anal Bioanal Chem, 391(6): 2249-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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