Methods of Diagnostics and Differentiation
of the Plague Infectious Agent:
Intraspecific Differentiation of Yersinia pestis. Part II*

A. L. Trukhachev and S. A. Lebedeva

Antiplague State Research Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Received June 30, 2005

Abstract—Problems and aspects of the intraspecific differentiation of the plague infectious agent are dis-
cussed. Special attention is paid to the necessity of a more precise definition of the taxonomic location of plague
agents in view of their genotypic characteristics, selective virulence, and the evolutionary descent of the genus
Yersinia
.

DOI:10.3103/S0891416807010016


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