Detection of a Yersinia pestis gene homologue in rodent samples
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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Department of Translational Genetics, Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
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School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Genetics, Microbiology, Molecular Biology
- Keywords
- Yersinia pestis, rodents, screening, microarray
- Copyright
- © 2016 Giles et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Detection of a Yersinia pestis gene homologue in rodent samples. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1866v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1866v1
Abstract
A homologue to a widely used genetic marker, pla, for Yersinia pestis has been identified in tissue samples of two species of rat (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) and of mice (Mus musculus and Apodemus sylvaticus) using a microarray based platform to screen for zoonotic pathogens of interest. Samples were from urban locations in the UK (Liverpool) and Canada (Vancouver). The results indicate the presence of an unknown bacterium that shares a homologue with Yersinia pestis.
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