Symbiosis of a lytic bacteriophage and
Yersinia pestis
and characteristics of plague in
Marmota himalayana
Dongyue Lyu,
Qun Duan,
Ran Duan
et al.
Abstract:Surveillance for animal plague was conducted in the
Marmota himalayana
plague focus of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau from 2020 to 2023. A 22.89% positive rate of serum F1 antibody was detected in live-caught marmots, alongside a 43.40% incidence of
Yersinia pestis
isolation from marmot carcasses. Marmot carcasses infected with plague exhibited a significantly higher spleen-somatic index (
P
< 0.05). Twenty-one
Y. p… Show more
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