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A plague o' both your hosts

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The genome of the bacterium that causes plague is highly dynamic, and scarred by genes acquired from other organisms. Does this explain its ability to kill both mammals and insects?

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Figure 1: How the plague is transmitted.

ROBERT HARDING

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    Stewart T. Cole & Carmen Buchrieser

  2. Laboratoire de Génomique des Microorganismes Pathogènes, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, 75724, Cedex 15, France

    Stewart T. Cole & Carmen Buchrieser

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Cole, S., Buchrieser, C. A plague o' both your hosts. Nature 413, 467–469 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35097178

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