Natural history of plague: perspectives from more than a century of research
Gage KL;Kosoy MY;;
Annual review of entomology2005Vol. 50pp. -
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Abstract
For more than a century, scientists have investigated the natural history of plague, a highly fatal disease caused by infection with the gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis. Among their most important discoveries were the zoonotic nature of the disease and that plague exists in natural cycles in …