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| Chapter title |
Discovery of the Plague Pathogen: Lessons Learned.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 2 |
| Book title |
Yersinia pestis: Retrospective and Perspective
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| Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-94-024-0890-4_2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-9-40-240888-1, 978-9-40-240890-4
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| Authors |
Ruifu Yang, Thomas Butler |
| Editors |
Ruifu Yang, Andrey Anisimov |
| Abstract |
Plague resulted in three pandemics in history; however, its causative pathogen was isolated until the third pandemic in Hong Kong in 1894. At that time, two famous researchers, Dr. Alexandre Yersin and Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato, went to HK, in order to identify the pathogen. The two great researchers had done a lot of work to isolate and identify the causative pathogen. However, Dr. Alexandre Yersin reported the real pathogen for plague, and we now acknowledge his work by nominating the pathogen's genus as Yersinia. In this chapter, we discussed the lessons learned from the two researchers' experience on isolation and identification of plague pathogen. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 5 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 5 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 4 | 80% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 4 | 80% |