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 7 (July)

1. Induction of innate immunity by lipid A mimetics increases survival from pneumonic plague.
   Microbiology, 154: 2131-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Characterization of a mouse model of plague after aerosolization of Yersinia pestis CO92.
   Microbiology, 154: 1939-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Pharmaceutical policy in China.
   Health Aff (Millwood), 27(4): 1042-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. HLA haplotype map of river valley populations with hemochromatosis traced through five centuries in Central Sweden.
   Eur J Haematol, 81(1): 36-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Insight into microevolution of Yersinia pestis by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.
   PLoS ONE, 3(7): e2652. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Modified caspase-3 assay indicates correlation of caspase-3 activity with immunity of nonhuman primates to Yersinia pestis infection.
   Clin Vaccine Immunol, 15(7): 1134-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. The nature of plague in late eighteenth-century Egypt.
   Bull Hist Med, 82(2): 249-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Analysis of the sensitivity properties of a model of vector-borne bubonic plague.
   J R Soc Interface, 5(26): 1099-107. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Yersinia pestis type III secretion system-dependent inhibition of human polymorphonuclear leukocyte function.
   Infect Immun, 76(8): 3754-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Effective plague vaccination via oral delivery of plant cells expressing F1-V antigens in chloroplasts.
    Infect Immun, 76(8): 3640-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Oral vaccination against bubonic plague using a live avirulent Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strain.
    Infect Immun, 76(8): 3808-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Comparison of self-reported and recorded vaccinations and health effects in Australian Gulf War veterans.
    Vaccine, 26(33): 4290-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Dynamics of genome rearrangement in bacterial populations.
    PLoS Genet, 4(7): e1000128. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. The plasminogen activator Pla of Yersinia pestis utilizes murine DEC-205 (CD205) as a receptor to promote dissemination.
    J Biol Chem. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943): discoverer of the plague bacillus, explorer and agronomist.
    J Med Biogr, 16(3): 167-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. P19-dependent and P19-independent reversion of F1-V gene silencing in tomato.
    Plant Mol Biol, 68(1): 61-79. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Disease and destiny-mystery and mastery.
    Prev Vet Med, 86(3): 198-207. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. A serosurvey for hantavirus infection in wild rodents from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco, Brazil.
    Acta Trop, 107(2): 150-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. A new purification strategy for fraction 1 capsular antigen and its efficacy against Yersinia pestis virulent strain challenge.
    Protein Expr Purif, 61(1): 7-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon.
    Nature, 454(7204): 634-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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