| diagnosis of plaque: an analysis of the yersin-kitasato controversy. | | 1976 | 10879 |
| kitasato, yersin, and the plague bacillus. | | 1975 | 54239 |
| alexandre yersin: pursuer of plague. | | 1989 | 2494200 |
| [alexandre yersin as he was. revelations of an unpublished correspondance covering 1884 to 1926]. | | 1973 | 4601826 |
| septicaemia due to yersinia enterocolitica biotype i in hong kong. | the clinical histories of four patients with septicaemia due to yersinia enterocolitica biotype i and the biochemical reactions of the isolates are reported. three of the isolates were serotype 017 and one was non-typable. these are the first reports of y. enterocolitica septicaemia from asia and of septicaemia due to biotype i which has previously been postulated to be non-pathogenic. all four patients had an underlying illness (two with metastatic neoplasms and two with burns). all of the pati ... | 1984 | 6699412 |
| a scottish doctor's association with the discovery of the plague bacillus. | plague killed at least a quarter of the population of europe in 1348. this was the first wave of the epidemic known as 'the black death' which continued for two years and then recurred sporadically till the late 17th century. in london in 1603, 22.6% of the population died from plague and in the outbreak known as the great plague of london in 1694 there were over 70,000 deaths out of a population of 460,000. many english villages were completely wiped out at this time. marseilles suffered severe ... | 1995 | 8693337 |
| hong kong, 1894: the role of james a lowson in the controversial discovery of the plague bacillus. | | 1997 | 9217728 |
| cloning and expression of class a beta-lactamase gene blaa(bps) in burkholderia pseudomallei. | the beta-lactamase gene blaa(bps) in burkholderia pseudomallei was cloned and expressed in escherichia coli. bps-1 is a cephalosporinase with an isoelectric point of 7.7. sequence analysis of bps-1 revealed conserved motifs typical of class a beta-lactamases and a relationship to the pena (in b. cepacia) and blai (in yersinia enterocolitica) lineages. | 2002 | 11897607 |
| the history of the plague and the research on the causative agent yersinia pestis. | the plague is an infectious bacterial disease having a high fatality rate without treatment. it has occurred in three huge pandemics since the 6th century with millions of deaths and numerous smaller epidemics and sporadic cases. referring to specific clinical symptoms of pulmonary plague the disease became known as the black death. this pandemic probably originated in central asia and began spreading westward along major trade routes. upon the arrival in the eastern mediterranean the disease qu ... | 2004 | 15031959 |