Volume 10, Number 9, September 2004

Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and Plague Pandemics

Michel Drancourt,* Véronique Roux,* La Vu Dang,* Lam Tran-Hung,* Dominique Castex,† Viviane Chenal-Francisque,‡ Hiroyuki Ogata,§ Pierre-Edouard Fournier,* Eric Crubézy,¶ and Didier Raoult*
*Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; †Université de Bordeaux 1, Talence, France; ‡Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; §Information Génomique et Structurale, Marseille, France; and ¶Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Figure 1. Unrooted tree showing the phylogenetic relationships among the 35 studied Yersinia pestis isolates inferred from sequence analysis of the combination of the eight intergenic spacers using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean method. O, Y. pestis Orientalis biovar; M, Y. pestis Medievalis biovar; A, Y. pestis Antiqua biovar. Numbers refer to the isolate number as in Table 1.

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