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Persistence of plague : determining which environmental factors contribute to maintenance of Yersinia pestis within sylvatic cycles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
. pestis. Within the geographic range of prairie dogs, it is not understood why regions have recurrent epizootics while others remain plague-free. Abiotic factors have been correlated to epizootics and field surveys have led to hypotheses on the role other...
Understanding the insect immune responses to Yersinia pestis using Drosophila melanogaster
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, continues to be transmitted in many different continents, most often by fleas. Despite knowing for a century that Y. pestis can form a biofilm on the flea's proventriculus ...