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| Title |
Role of the Yersinia pestis Yersiniabactin Iron Acquisition System in the Incidence of Flea-Borne Plague
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0014379 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Florent Sebbane, Clayton Jarrett, Donald Gardner, Daniel Long, B. Joseph Hinnebusch |
| Abstract |
Plague is a flea-borne zoonosis caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Y. pestis mutants lacking the yersiniabactin (Ybt) siderophore-based iron transport system are avirulent when inoculated intradermally but fully virulent when inoculated intravenously in mice. Presumably, Ybt is required to provide sufficient iron at the peripheral injection site, suggesting that Ybt would be an essential virulence factor for flea-borne plague. Here, using a flea-to-mouse transmission model, we show that a Y. pestis strain lacking the Ybt system causes fatal plague at low incidence when transmitted by fleas. Bacteriology and histology analyses revealed that a Ybt-negative strain caused only primary septicemic plague and atypical bubonic plague instead of the typical bubonic form of disease. The results provide new evidence that primary septicemic plague is a distinct clinical entity and suggest that unusual forms of plague may be caused by atypical Y. pestis strains. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 52 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Madagascar | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 48 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 12% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Researcher | 5 | 10% |
| Other | 11 | 21% |
| Unknown | 7 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 29% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 13% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 10% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 7 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 April 2018.
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#50,593
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#538
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