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Development of model systems for the vector-host-pathogen interface of bubonic plague
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Bubonic plague infections begin in the dermis when the pathogen is introduced by a flea during a routine blood feed. Several barriers separate Yersinia pestis from its replicative niche, including phagocytic cells in the ...