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Oct 2026
A near-ubiquitous plasmid characterises Second Pandemic Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, crippled population across Eurasia in three well-described historical pandemics: The Justinianic plague (541-780), the Second Pandemic (1346-1840) and the Third Pandemic (1894-). The Second Pandemic was the deadliest, with the Black Death (1346-1351) killing up to 60% of...
F. Seersholm, Gabriele Scorrano, J. Ploug et al.
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