BioTechniques (Feb 2008)

Assays for the rapid and specific identification of North American Yersinia pestis and the common laboratory strain CO92

  • Amy J. Vogler,
  • Elizabeth M. Driebe,
  • Judy Lee,
  • Raymond K. Auerbach,
  • Christopher J. Allender,
  • Miles Stanley,
  • Kristy Kubota,
  • Gary L. Andersen,
  • Lyndsay Radnedge,
  • Patricia L. Worsham,
  • Paul Keim,
  • David M. Wagner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2144/000112815
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 44, no. 2
pp. 201 – 207

Abstract

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We present TaqMan-minor groove binding (MGB) assays for an SNP that separates the Yersinia pestis strain CO92 from all other strains and for another SNP that separates North American strains from all other global strains.