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Plague
Research from H.H. Liu and co-researchers in the area of plague described
May 19th, 2009
According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Despite the importance of pneumonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis, a few is known about the interaction between Y. pestis and its host at the molecular level during the pneumonic plague development. In this study, we employed an intranasally challenged plague model in mice for investigating the kinetics of the disease progression by transcriptional profiling of Y. pestis and mice using qRT-PCR and microarray, respectively." "The increasing transcription of important virulence genes of Y. pestis and of mice genes involving in immune and inflammatory defensive responses, and responses to stimuli, presents...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-19)
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