Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients
- Michel Drancourt
- Michel Signoli
- La Vu Dang
- Bruno Bizot
- Véronique Roux
- Stéfan Tzortzis
- Didier Raoult
Publication date
February 2007
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
Yersinia pestis DNA was recently detected in human remains from 2 ancient plague pandemics in France and Germany. We have now sequenced Y. pestis glpD gene in such remains, showing a 93-bp deletion specific for biotype Orientalis. These data show that only Orientalis type caused the 3 plague pandemics
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