Testing the climatic controls on plague (Yersinia pestis) using palaeobiogeographical modelling and experimental microbiology

Yersinia pestis is the bacterial agent of plague, a disease which has caused three trans-continental pandemics through the Common Era. Y. pestis is currently present in reservoir populations in Asia, Africa, North and South America and has recently been identified as a re-emergent disease primarily...

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Main Author: Fell, Henry Gillies
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69910/